Mercury speciation, transformation, and transportation in soils, atmospheric flux, and implications for risk management: A critical review

D O'Connor, D Hou, YS Ok, J Mulder, L Duan… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) is a potentially harmful trace element in the environment and one of the World
Health Organization's foremost chemicals of concern. The threat posed by Hg contaminated …

Fractionation studies of mercury in soils and sediments: a review of the chemical reagents used for mercury extraction

N Issaro, C Abi-Ghanem, A Bermond - Analytica chimica acta, 2009 - Elsevier
Mercury in contaminated soils and sediments could be extracted by various chemical
reagents in order to determine the different mercury species and partitions, providing useful …

Mercury reduction and complexation by natural organic matter in anoxic environments

B Gu, Y Bian, CL Miller, W Dong… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Mercuric Hg (II) species form complexes with natural dissolved organic matter (DOM) such
as humic acid (HA), and this binding is known to affect the chemical and biological …

Mercury compounds characterization by thermal desorption

M Rumayor, M Diaz-Somoano, MA Lopez-Anton… - Talanta, 2013 - Elsevier
The ability to accurately determine metal mercury content and identify different mercury
species in solid samples is essential for developing remediation and control strategies. The …

Binding and mobility of mercury in soils contaminated by emissions from chlor-alkali plants

H Biester, G Müller, HF Schöler - Science of the Total Environment, 2002 - Elsevier
Chlor-alkali plants are known to be an important source of Hg emissions to the atmosphere
and related contamination of soils in their vicinity. In the present study, the results of Hg …

Mercury speciation in tailings of the Idrija mercury mine

H Biester, M Gosar, G Müller - Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 1999 - Elsevier
Five hundred years of mercury (Hg) mining activity in Idrija, Slovenia caused widespread Hg
contamination. Besides Hg emissions from the ore smelter, tailings have been found to be …

Mercury speciation in fluorescent lamps by thermal release analysis

C Raposo, CC Windmöller, WAD Junior - Waste Management, 2003 - Elsevier
In this work, mercury speciation in phosphorus powder matrices and soda lime glass waste
from new and spent fluorescent lamp wastes has been studied by thermo-desorption/atomic …

Mercury abundances and isotopic compositions in the Murchison (CM) and Allende (CV) carbonaceous chondrites

DS Lauretta, B Klaue, JD Blum, PR Buseck - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2001 - Elsevier
The abundance and isotopic composition of Hg was determined in bulk samples of both the
Murchison (CM) and Allende (CV) carbonaceous chondrites using single-and multi-collector …

Overview and challenges of mercury fractionation and speciation in soils

AT Reis, CM Davidson, C Vale, E Pereira - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Analytical procedures to assess mercury speciation in soils still lack consensus. This article
presents an overview of the mercury fractionation and speciation procedures used in soils …

Release of mercury from Rocky Mountain forest fires

A Biswas, JD Blum, B Klaue… - Global Biogeochemical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Concentrations of mercury (Hg) in soil profiles and vegetation were examined in unburned
areas and in areas recently burned by wildfires of low, medium, and high fire severities in …