Mass-dependent and mass-independent fractionation of mercury isotopes in precipitation from Guiyang, SW China

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 347, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 358-367

  Wang, Zhuhong ^a,b   Chen, Jiubin ^a   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Hintelmann, Holger ^c   Yuan, Shengliu ^a,b   Cai, Hongming ^a,b   Huang, Qiang ^a   Wang, Shuxiao ^d   Wang, Fengyang ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese precipitation; Mass dependent fractionation; Mass independent fractionation; Mercury isotopes; Source tracing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY);

GUIYANG;

EID: 84946599337     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2015.02.006     Document Type: Article

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