Effect of polysulfides on cinnabar solubility, partitioning, and methylation by Desulfovibrio desufuricans

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Jay, Jennifer Ayla, 1969-
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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Harold F. Hemond.
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Abstract
Sulfate reducing bacteria are believed to be the most important methylators of mercury in aquatic systems. Methylation may be controlled by the availability of mercury to these bacteria and therefore may depend on mercury speciation in sulfidic water ...
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1999.
 
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1999
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9506
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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