Occurrence of monoethylmercury in the Florida Everglades: Identification and verification

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3378-3384

  Mao, Yuxiang ^a,b   Yin, Yongguang ^c   Li, Yanbin ^a   Liu, Guangliang ^a   Feng, Xinbin ^d   Jiang, Guibin ^c   Cai, Yong ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Everglades; Isotope tracer; Monoethylmercury; Occurrence; Soil

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ARTIFACT; ANALYTICAL PROCEDURE; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; EVERGLADES; FLORIDA EVERGLADES; ISOTOPE TRACER; MONOETHYLMERCURY; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; OCCURRENCE; PHENYLATION; PURGE-AND-TRAP; STABLE ISOTOPES; TRACER EXPERIMENT;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; SOILS;

MERCURY (METAL);

ETHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE;

MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; RESIDENCE TIME; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); WETLAND;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLORIDA; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUNDS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956614846     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.07.031     Document Type: Article

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