Farmland mercury contamination in the vicinity of an organic chemical factory in Guizhou,China |
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| Authors: | Junfang Zhang Liya Qu Xinbin Feng Wei Zhang Yanna Guo Kai Lin Mei Li |
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| Institution: | [1]State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cruiyang 550002, China [2]Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China [3]Guizhou Institute of Environmental Science and Designing, Cruiyang 550002, China |
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| Abstract: | This study assesses the level of contamination of Hg in farmland soils along the irrigating channel downstream from Guizhou Organic Chemical Factory (GOCF), where metallic mercury is used as a catalyst to produce acetic acid. The total input of mercury into the environment, as announced by GOCF, is 140 t in the past 30 years (1971-2000). Sampling sites were chosen based on the distance from the source of pollution-the chemical factory. A total of 39 samples were collected from the study area and analyzed for total mercury concentrations and methyl mercury concentrations. The characteristics of vertical and horizontal distributions of total mercury and methyl mercury in the study area (farmland) are described in this paper. Much attention was paid to the transformation of inorganic Hg into organic mercury species in soils as well. The results showed that the farmland has been heavily contaminated by Hg. Land cultivation activity, land utilization style and distance from the pollution source could be the dominant factors controlling the distribution of THg and MeHg. It is observed that active transformation of inorganic Hg into organic mercury species (MeHg) usually takes place in paddy soils. |
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| Keywords: | mercury distribution farmland soil speciation transformation |
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