Water-air gas exchange of elemental mercury: An experimentally determined mercury diffusion coefficient for Hg0 water-air flux calculations

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1461-1467

  Kuss, Joachim ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

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ACTIVATION ENERGY; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DIFFUSION; GAS EXCHANGE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SALINITY; SEAWATER;

EID: 84904296727     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2014.59.5.1461     Document Type: Article

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