کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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5752639 | 1620216 | 2016 | 39 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Quantification of methylmercury and geochemistry of mercury in sediments from a contaminated area of Descoberto (MG), Brazil
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موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه
علوم زمین و سیارات
ژئوشیمی و پترولوژی
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چکیده انگلیسی
In 2002, metallic Hg was found buried in a rural area of Descoberto city, Brazil. The origin of the Hg was a gold mining explotation plant established nearly one century ago. Although a number of studies have been conducted in order to assess the contamination of the area, none of them investigated the presence of methylated Hg in the hydric system. In this work methylmercury (CH3Hg+) was determined using gas chromatography-pyrolysis-atomic fluorescence detection (CG-pyro-AFS) in material from rain sedimentation boxes and stream sediments near the contaminated area. Total Hg concentration (HgT) along with the chemical speciation by thermo-desorption were performed. HgT in material from the sedimentation boxes was found to be very high, up to 41,580 μg kgâ1, even in the rainy season, when in general HgT were much lower than in dry season. The samples from the Grama and Rico streams show a range of HgT from 5.8 to 266 μg kgâ1. The thermo-desorption analysis showed predominance of Hg2+, possibly linked to organic sulfur, suggested by a good positive correlation between Hg2+, HgT, organic mater (OM) and total S. The CH3Hg+ concentration in stream sediment samples ranged from <0.07 to 1.87 μg kgâ1 and in the samples of sedimentation boxes the concentrations were 1.33 and 8.0 μg kgâ1 during dry season. The sample with the highest percentage of HgT as Hg2+ (98%) presented also the highest percentage of CH3Hg+ (0.7%). These are high values, showing that care should be taken to avoid the transport of this material to the hydrological system. Further studies on the transfer through the food chain would be very important.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Applied Geochemistry - Volume 75, December 2016, Pages 32-43
Journal: Applied Geochemistry - Volume 75, December 2016, Pages 32-43
نویسندگان
Louise Aparecida Mendes, Jorge Carvalho de Lena, Cláudia Magalhães do Valle, Peter Marshall Fleming, Cláudia Carvalhinho Windmöller,