Mercury isotope variations between bioavailable mercury fractions and total mercury in mercury contaminated soil in Wanshan Mercury Mine, SW China

Chemical Geology

Volumn 336, Issue , 2013, Pages 80-86

  Yin, Runsheng ^a,b   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Wang, Jianxu ^a,b   Bao, Zhengduo ^a,b   Yu, Ben ^a,b   Chen, Jiubin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Mercury; Mercury isotope; Soil; Thiosulphate extractable; Water soluble

Indexed keywords

BIOAVAILABLE FRACTION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CONTAMINATED SOILS; COUPLED PLASMA; GEOCHEMICAL BEHAVIORS; GUIZHOU; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE VALUES; ISOTOPE VARIATION; MASS-INDEPENDENT FRACTIONATION; MC-ICP-MS; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; SOIL SAMPLE; THIOSULPHATES; TOTAL MERCURIES; WATER-SOLUBLE;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MERCURY MINES; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

MERCURY (METAL);

BIOAVAILABILITY; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SOIL CHEMISTRY;

CHINA; GUIZHOU; WANSHAN;

EID: 84871924584     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.04.017     Document Type: Article

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