Highly Acidic Ambient Particles, Soluble Metals, and Oxidative Potential: A Link between Sulfate and Aerosol Toxicity

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2611-2620

  Fang, Ting ^a   Guo, Hongyu ^a   Zeng, Linghan ^a   Verma, Vishal ^b   Nenes, Athanasios ^a,c,d,e   Weber, Rodney J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^e NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CARBON; DISSOLUTION; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS; URBAN GROWTH;

ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS; AMBIENT PARTICLES; ELEMENTAL AND ORGANIC CARBONS; METALS DISSOLUTION; OXIDATIVE POTENTIAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL;

METALS;

ASCORBIC ACID; COPPER; HYDRONIUM ION; IRON; MANGANESE; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFATE; TRANSITION ELEMENT; WATER; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; METAL; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AEROSOL; DISSOLUTION; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARTICULATE MATTER; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SULFATE; THERMODYNAMICS; TOXICITY; URBAN SITE;

ACIDITY; AEROSOL; AIR MONITORING; AMBIENT AIR; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; ECOTOXICITY; MINERAL DUST; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PH; THERMODYNAMICS; URBAN AREA; AIR POLLUTANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

ATLANTA; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METALS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SULFATES;

EID: 85018877752     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b06151     Document Type: Article

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