Mercury stable isotopic compositions in coals from major coal producing fields in china and their geochemical and environmental implications

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 5565-5574

  Yin, Runsheng ^a   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Chen, Jiubin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL COMBUSTION; ISOTOPES; MERCURY (METAL);

DIFFERENT COALS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS; GEOLOGICAL FACTORS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; MASS-INDEPENDENT FRACTIONATION; POTENTIAL SOURCES; STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS;

COAL;

COAL; HUMIC ACID; MERCURY; SULFUR;

COAL; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOGENIC SOURCE; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PHOTODEGRADATION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TRACER;

ARTICLE; CARBONIFEROUS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHINA; COAL MINING; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRACTIONATION; JURASSIC; PERMIAN; TRIASSIC;

CHINA;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CHINA; COAL; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MERCURY; MERCURY ISOTOPES; SULFUR;

EID: 84900993116     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es500322n     Document Type: Article

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