Extractability and mobility of mercury from agricultural soils surrounding industrial and mining contaminated areas

Chemosphere

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1369-1377

  Reis, Ana Teresa ^a   Rodrigues, Sónia Morais ^a   Davidson, Christine M ^b   Pereira, Eduarda ^a   Duarte, Armando C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mercury; Mobility; Sequential extraction; Soils

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CARRIER MOBILITY; CONTAMINATION; EXTRACTION; MERCURY (METAL); POSITIVE IONS; SOILS; SULFUR;

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; CHLOR-ALKALI PLANTS; CONTAMINATED SOILS; CONTAMINATION SOURCES; IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS; INFORMATION CONCERNING; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION PROCEDURE;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; MANGANESE; MERCURY; ORGANIC MATTER; SULFUR;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALUMINUM; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FRACTIONATION; MANGANESE; MATRIX; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINING INDUSTRY; MOBILITY; ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL REMEDIATION; SULFUR;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; FRACTIONATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MINING; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY;

EID: 78249256335     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.09.030     Document Type: Article

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