Influence of humic substances on photolysis of divalent mercury in aqeous solution
Journal article, 1995

Mercury (II) solutions were irradiated by a simulated sunlight in the presence of humic acid (HA) or fulvic acid (FA). Results show that, under the experimental conditions and the FA and HA chosen, less than 20% of the Hg in solution was photolysed with a rate of (1.63±0.29)×10–2 s–1 (n=23) and the rest of (2.38±0.40)×10–4 s–1 (n=23) depending on the substitutes of humic substances to which Hg were bond. The sunlight photolysis lifetimes were estimated to be 4 and 250 sunlight hours respectively under summer conditions at Stockholm latitude.

Mercury

photochemistry

kinetic

natural water

environment

humic substances

reduction

Author

Zifan Xiao

Dan Strömberg

University of Gothenburg

Oliver Lindqvist

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

0049-6979 (ISSN) 1573-2932 (eISSN)

Vol. 80 1-4 789-

Subject Categories

Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

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