Subject Index
E
earthquakes 21
East Fork Poplar Creek, TN 34
Eh-pH diagram 352,353,444
Elbe River 25
electrokinetic technique 124
electroleaching 124, 441
electrolysis 442,457
- unit 460
electrolytic oxidation 441
electrolytical mercury deposition 441
elemental sulphur 409, 416
elution behaviour 196
emission 53,58,115,252,377,378,388,389
- factor 209
- rate 23
- speciation 4
enrichment factor 81
environmental decontamination 457
- mobility 107
- regulation 90
eolian process 348
epilimnion 29
epiphytic lichen 262
equilibrium calculation 121, 201, 202
- constant 201
erosion 79
ethylmercury 174
Etna volcano, Italy 21
exposure 460
- gradient 298
extraction efficiency 452
- mechanisms 122
F
feasibility assessment 458
ferro-alloys 133
fertilizer 131
field method 339
- sampling 183
Finland 14
fish 56
- consumption advisory 94, 98
- mercury concentration 469
- monitoring 150
fixed-bed adsorbers 394
floodplain 33,34, 36
- cleanup 96
- soil 94,95
Florida 22
flue gas 393,401
fluorescence detection 412
fluvial input 213,215
- system 338
flux 4,54, 65
- chamber 19,34
- measurement 26
- of dissolved mercury 105
fly ash 120, 403
forest 38
- ecosystems 38
- fires 7,20
fossil fuels 393
freshwater snails 82
fulvic acid 196
fungi 161, 173, 321
G
galena 132
Galio rotundifolii-Abietetum 294
garimpos 12
gas deposit 237, 239
gaseous mercury 377>378,379,390
gas-washing system 117
geochemical indicator 364
geohydrological isolation 119
geothermal power plant 62 - 63, 66
- sources 21
- zones 19
German Democratic Republic 9
Gibbs energy 446
gold mining 7J, 357, 361, 441
granulometric fraction 504
gravimetric procedure 412
groundwater 198
- abstraction 181
- treatment 106
H
Hacquetio-Fagetum 294
Haifa Bay 218
haloes 364
halogenated hydrocarbon 449
Hawaii 20
hazardous waste 459
HCI-extractable mercury 184
HCI-soluble Hg 191
health 461
heated soil 423
heat-generated mercuric sulfide 437
heating 438
- temperature 439
- test 426
Hexagenia 484
Hg adsorption 192
- amalgamation 75
- atmospheric deposition 213
- concentrations in air 261, 284
533
E
earthquakes 21
East Fork Poplar Creek, TN 34
Eh-pH diagram 352,353,444
Elbe River 25
electrokinetic technique 124
electroleaching 124, 441
electrolysis 442,457
- unit 460
electrolytic oxidation 441
electrolytical mercury deposition 441
elemental sulphur 409, 416
elution behaviour 196
emission 53,58,115,252,377,378,388,389
- factor 209
- rate 23
- speciation 4
enrichment factor 81
environmental decontamination 457
- mobility 107
- regulation 90
eolian process 348
epilimnion 29
epiphytic lichen 262
equilibrium calculation 121, 201, 202
- constant 201
erosion 79
ethylmercury 174
Etna volcano, Italy 21
exposure 460
- gradient 298
extraction efficiency 452
- mechanisms 122
F
feasibility assessment 458
ferro-alloys 133
fertilizer 131
field method 339
- sampling 183
Finland 14
fish 56
- consumption advisory 94, 98
- mercury concentration 469
- monitoring 150
fixed-bed adsorbers 394
floodplain 33,34, 36
- cleanup 96
- soil 94,95
Florida 22
flue gas 393,401
fluorescence detection 412
fluvial input 213,215
- system 338
flux 4,54, 65
- chamber 19,34
- measurement 26
- of dissolved mercury 105
fly ash 120, 403
forest 38
- ecosystems 38
- fires 7,20
fossil fuels 393
freshwater snails 82
fulvic acid 196
fungi 161, 173, 321
G
galena 132
Galio rotundifolii-Abietetum 294
garimpos 12
gas deposit 237, 239
gaseous mercury 377>378,379,390
gas-washing system 117
geochemical indicator 364
geohydrological isolation 119
geothermal power plant 62 - 63, 66
- sources 21
- zones 19
German Democratic Republic 9
Gibbs energy 446
gold mining 7J, 357, 361, 441
granulometric fraction 504
gravimetric procedure 412
groundwater 198
- abstraction 181
- treatment 106
H
Hacquetio-Fagetum 294
Haifa Bay 218
haloes 364
halogenated hydrocarbon 449
Hawaii 20
hazardous waste 459
HCI-extractable mercury 184
HCI-soluble Hg 191
health 461
heated soil 423
heat-generated mercuric sulfide 437
heating 438
- temperature 439
- test 426
Hexagenia 484
Hg adsorption 192
- amalgamation 75
- atmospheric deposition 213
- concentrations in air 261, 284
533