Atmospheric mercury—An overview
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...Using emission factors for the release of mercury from 7 source categories, Nriagu and Pacyna (1988) estimated world-wide anthropogenic mercury emissions for the year 1983 to have been in the range of 91G6200 tonnes, with a median value of 3560 ton....
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...Since then, Nriagu and Pacyna (1988) and Nriagu (1989) have estimated global natural mercury emissions to be approximately 3 000 ton per annum....
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...The most widely employed paradigm describing mass transfer (i.e. flux) of chemicals across the air-water interface was derived by Liss and Slater (1974)....
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...Since then, Nriagu and Pacyna (1988) and Nriagu (1989) have estimated global natural mercury emissions to be approximately 3 000 ton per annum....
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...…compounds such as PCBs, HCB and organochlorine pesticides (e.g. HCHs, DDT, chlordane, toxaphene) there exists strong scientific evidence (Mackay et al., 1986: Schroeder and Lane, 1988; Kurtz, 1990; Wania and Mackay, 1996) that these chemicals participate in a “global distillation” phenomenon....
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