Refining thermodynamic constants for mercury(II)-sulfides in equilibrium with metacinnabar at sub-micromolar aqueous sulfide concentrations

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4197-4203

  Drott, A ^a   Bjorn E ^a   Bouchet, S ^a   Skyllberg, U ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL UPTAKE; FORMATION CONSTANTS; RELEVANT INFORMATIONS; SOLUBILITY PRODUCT; STABILITY CONSTANTS; SULFATE-REDUCING CONDITIONS; SULFIDE CONCENTRATION; THERMODYNAMIC CONSTANTS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTS; SOLUBILITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

IRON; MERCURY SULFIDE; METACINNABAR; METHYLMERCURY; SULFATE; SULFIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BACTERIUM; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; DATA SET; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; MOBILITY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); MOLECULAR STABILITY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SOLUBILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOLUBILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84877594531     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304824n     Document Type: Article

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