Understanding the formation of colloidal mercury in acidic wastewater with high concentration of chloride ions by electrocapillary curves

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 3866-3872

  Wang, Qingwei ^a,b   Qin, Wenqing ^a   Chai, Liyuan ^a,b   Li, Qingzhu ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE NATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER FOR CONTROL AND TREATMENT OF HEAVY METAL POLLUTION   (China)

Author keywords

Acidic wastewater; Colloidal mercury; Dropping mercury electrode; Electrocapillary curve; Model

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; MERCURY; SULFITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; PH; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHLORIDES; COLLOIDS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MERCURY; SULFITES; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84893905197     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-2379-1     Document Type: Article

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