Mercury stable isotopes for monitoring the effectiveness of the Minamata Convention on Mercury

SY Kwon, JD Blum, R Yin, MTK Tsui, YH Yang… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Minamata Convention on Mercury (MC) includes provisions for a global
monitoring program (GMP) and effectiveness evaluation (EE) to provide information on …

Mercury stable isotopes revealing the atmospheric mercury circulation: A review of particulate bound mercury in China

X Qin, Q Guo, P Martens, T Krafft - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Human activities since industrialization have significantly raised global atmospheric mercury
(Hg) levels. China's high Hg emissions with rapid industrial development have a global …

Legacy Mercury Re-emission and Subsurface Migration at Contaminated Sites Constrained by Hg Isotopes and Chemical Speciation

W Zhu, Z Li, P Li, J Sommar, X Fu, X Feng… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The re-emission and subsurface migration of legacy mercury (Hg) are not well understood
due to limited knowledge of the driving processes. To investigate these processes at a …

Mercury migration to surface water from remediated mine waste and impacts of rainfall in a karst area–Evidence from Hg isotopes

J Yan, R Li, MU Ali, C Wang, B Wang, X **, M Shao… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Mine waste (MW) in historical mercury (Hg) mining areas continuously emits Hg into local
environment, including aquatic ecosystems. Tracing Hg migration process from MW and …

Historical (1850–2010) mercury stable isotope inventory from anthropogenic sources to the atmosphere

R Sun, DG Streets, HM Horowitz, HM Amos, G Liu… - …, 2016 - online.ucpress.edu
Mercury (Hg) stable isotopes provide a new tool to trace the biogeochemical cycle of Hg. An
inventory of the isotopic composition of historical anthropogenic Hg emissions is important to …

Novel sulfhydryl functionalized covalent organic frameworks for ultra-trace Hg2+ removal from aqueous solution

F Pan, C Tong, Z Wang, F Xu, X Wang, B Weng… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Two kinds of novel sulfhydryl functionalized covalent organic frameworks were fabricated as
adsorbents for the removal of ultra-trace concentrations of Hg 2+ from water. The two kinds …

Thallium isotopes in metallurgical wastes/contaminated soils: A novel tool to trace metal source and behavior

A Vaněk, Z Grösslová, M Mihaljevič, V Ettler… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2018 - Elsevier
Thallium (Tl) concentration and isotope data have been recorded for contaminated soils and
a set of industrial wastes that were produced within different stages of Zn ore mining and …

High-precision isotopic analysis sheds new light on mercury metabolism in long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas)

E Bolea-Fernandez, A Rua-Ibarz, EM Krupp… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Whales accumulate mercury (Hg), but do not seem to show immediate evidence of toxic
effects. Analysis of different tissues (liver, kidney, muscle) and biofluids (blood, milk) from a …

Mercury isotopes in deep-sea epibenthic biota suggest limited Hg transfer from photosynthetic to chemosynthetic food webs

J Yuan, Y Liu, S Chen, X Peng, YF Li, S Li… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Deep oceans receive mercury (Hg) from upper oceans, sediment diagenesis, and
submarine volcanism; meanwhile, sinking particles shuttle Hg to marine sediments. Recent …

Isotopic composition for source identification of mercury in atmospheric fine particles

Q Huang, J Chen, W Huang, P Fu… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
The usefulness of mercury (Hg) isotopes for tracing the sources and pathways of Hg (and its
vectors) in atmospheric fine particles (PM 2.5) is uncertain. Here, we measured Hg isotopic …