Equilibrium mercury isotope fractionation between dissolved Hg(II) species and thiol-bound Hg

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4191-4197

  Wiederhold, Jan G ^a   Cramer, Christopher J ^b   Daniel, Kelly ^b   Infante, Ivan ^c   Bourdon, Bernard ^a   Kretzschmar, Ruben ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETERS;

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE VARIATION; MASS-INDEPENDENT FRACTIONATION; MULTIPLE COLLECTOR INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; NITRATE SOLUTIONS;

MERCURY COMPOUNDS;

MERCURIC NITRATE; MERCURY; MERCURY CHLORIDE; RESIN; STABLE ISOTOPE; THIOL GROUP;

CHLORIDE; DISSOLVED MATTER; GEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NITRATE; REDOX CONDITIONS; RESIN; STABLE ISOTOPE; THIOL;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTIONATION; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METAL BINDING; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

EID: 77952906732     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es100205t     Document Type: Article

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