Low molecular weight components in an aquatic humic substance as characterized by membrane dialysis and Orbitrap mass spectrometry

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 9350-9359

  Remucal, Christina K ^a,c   Cory, Rose M ^b   Sander, Michael ^a   McNeill, Kristopher ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University of North Carolina   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC HUMIC SUBSTANCES; COMPLEX MIXTURE; DIALYSATES; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FOURIER TRANSFORM ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; FT-ICR MS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW MOLECULAR MASS; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MASS ACCURACY; MEMBRANE DIALYSIS; MOLECULAR FORMULA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT CUTOFF; ORBITRAP; ORBITRAP MS; RETENTATE; STANDARD ADDITION METHOD; SUWANNEE RIVER FULVIC ACID; TARGET COMPOUND; UV VISIBLE ABSORPTION SPECTRUM; UV-VISIBLE ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DIALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC ACIDS;

DIALYSIS MEMBRANES;

HUMIC ACID; LIGNIN; ORGANIC MATTER; SUWANNEE RIVER FULVIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FULVIC ACID; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; LIGNIN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; DIALYSATE; DIALYSIS MEMBRANE; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORBITRAP MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLANT;

BENZOPYRANS; DIALYSIS; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RIVERS;

SUWANNEE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865704273     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es302468q     Document Type: Article

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