Sentence examples for mercury transformation from inspiring English sources

The proposed dimensionless temperature coefficient can be used to better understand the temperature-dependent relationship between heterogeneous Hg/Br chemistry and mercury transformation.

We combine hydraulic modeling, Hg measurements in sediment and biota, and first-order calculations of mercury transformation to assess the potential role of river floodplains in producing monomethylmercury (MMHg), a neurotoxin which accumulates in local and migratory food webs.

It critically reviews measured mercury emissions; the chemistry of mercury transformation and control; progress in the development of promising control technologies: sorbent injection, control in wet scrubbers, and coal cleaning; and projects costs for mercury control.

Working with DOE scientists Eric Pierce and Dwayne Elias, Neal-Walthall will be employing DNA-based methods to better understand how microbial communities in biofilms affect mercury transformation in the environment as she analyzes samples from Duke's Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT) research facility.

However, as expected the Hg-resistant strain recovered at 6 h after Hg addition and eventually reached a turbidity similar to its growth in medium without HgCl2; the lag period reflects the induction of the expression of the genes for mercury transformation.

During its interaction with mercury, no crystal phase transformation of silver was observed, but a progressive decrease of the diffraction intensity of the silver peaks was found with an increasing amount of mercury adsorbed by the system.

But he was frustrated with methods available for tracking microbial transformations of mercury in the environment.

S. - W. Lee, Lowry, G. V., and Hsu-Kim, H., "Biogeochemical transformations of mercury in solid waste landfills and pathways for release", Environ.

Transformation of inorganic mercury (Hg) to methyl mercury (MeHg) in peatlands is a key process in making boreal catchments a source of MeHg to freshwater ecosystems.

Also, SEM micrographs and mercury porosimetry results revealed the transformation of microstructure of RPC caused by autoclaving process.

Otherwise, experiments with stable isotope tracers introduced into the environment have given invaluable information on the distribution and transformation behavior of mercury in the environment [ 5– 7].