A critical investigation of hydride generation-based arsenic speciation in sulfidic waters

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 5007-5013

  Planer Friedrich, Britta ^a   Wallschläger, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; ARSENIC DETERMINATION; ARSENIC SPECIATION; ARSENIC SPECIES; GEOTHERMAL WATER; HYDRIDE GENERATIONS; INORGANIC ARSENIC; L-CYSTEINE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MATRIX EFFECTS; ORIGINAL SAMPLE; PH RANGE; POTASSIUM IODIDE; SPECIATION DATA; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; SULFIDIC WATERS; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARKS;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARKS; POTASSIUM; SULFUR;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; POTASSIUM IODIDE;

ACIDIFICATION; ARSENATE; ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFIDE; SULFUR; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; PH; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

ARSENAMIDE; ARSENATES; ARSENIC; CYSTEINE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POTASSIUM IODIDE; SULFIDES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WYOMING;

TETRA;

EID: 67649949584     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900111z     Document Type: Article

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