Assessment of mercury pollution sources in beach sand and coastal soil by speciation analysis

[Background] An essential requisite for controlling and monitoring mercury in the environment is to identify its species in different types of soils and sediments, as this will help not only to establish its mobility in the environment and ecosystem and the degree of its toxicity, but also to establ...

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Autores: Rodríguez-Gallego, Jose Luis, López Antón, María Antonia, Martínez de la Rosa, Deva, Rodríguez-Valdés, Eduardo, García-González, Nerea, Rodríguez Vázquez, Elena, Martínez Tarazona, María Rosa
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/192582
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/192582
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mercury
Speciation
Thermal desorption
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Sumario:[Background] An essential requisite for controlling and monitoring mercury in the environment is to identify its species in different types of soils and sediments, as this will help not only to establish its mobility in the environment and ecosystem and the degree of its toxicity, but also to establish the source of contamination. The objective of this work was to identify the origin of mercury in beach sands and soil taken from a coastal region with previously high mining and industrial activity by characterizing the mercury species using the technique known as thermal desorption (HgTPD).