Photoreactions of mercury in surface ocean water: Gross reaction kinetics and possible pathways

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 644-649

  Qureshi, Asif ^a   O'Driscoll, Nelson J ^b   Macleod, Matthew ^a   Neuhold, Yorck Michael ^a   Hungerbühler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; DISSOLVED GASEOUS MERCURY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN WATER; OPEN OCEAN; OUTDOOR EXPERIMENT; OXIDATION KINETICS; PHOTO-REDUCTION; PHOTOREACTIONS; PSEUDO FIRST ORDER RATE CONSTANTS; REACTION STEPS; REDUCTION REACTION; REVERSIBLE REACTION; SURFACE OCEAN;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; COLLOID CHEMISTRY; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTS; MERCURY (METAL); OCEANOGRAPHY; PHOTOOXIDATION; RATE CONSTANTS; SURFACE WATERS;

REACTION KINETICS;

MERCURY; SEA WATER; SURFACE WATER;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOOXIDATION; REACTION KINETICS; REDUCTION; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COLLOID; FILTRATION; MICROORGANISM; OXIDATION; PHOTOREACTIVITY; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

KINETICS; MERCURY; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 74949115939     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9012728     Document Type: Article

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