Mercury species in seawater and sediment of xiamen western sea area adjacent to a coal-fired power plant

Water Environment Research

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 335-341

  Liang, Ying ^a,b   Liu, Xiyao ^a   Yuan, Dongxing ^a   Gong, Zhebin ^a   Zhang, Zhen ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUILIN UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Coal fired power plant; Mercury species; Seawater; Sediment

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COAL; COAL FUELED FURNACES; MERCURY (METAL); MINING; ORGANIC CARBON; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; DESULPHURIZATION; HG CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURIES (HG); MERCURY SPECIES; SAMPLING SITE; SEDIMENT ORGANIC CARBON; STUDY AREAS;

FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS;

MERCURY; SEA WATER;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); ORGANIC CARBON; POWER PLANT; SEAWATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHINA; COAL POWER; DESULFURIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHINA; FUJIAN; XIAMEN;

EID: 77950393621     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: 15547531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143009X12487095236793     Document Type: Article

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