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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 603, Issue -, Pages 434-444Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.06.121
Keywords
Trace metal; Organic matter; Size fractionation; Colloidal; Estuarine mixing; Jiulong River estuary
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21237004]
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The Jiulong River estuary, located in the southeastern China, suffered from metal pollution due to industrial effluent releases. Mixing of effluent and estuarine water may have significantly affected the size distribution of trace metals and their environmental fate. In the present study, colloidal size distribution of organic matter and selected metals were quantified using asymmetric flow field-flowfractionation (AF4) and ICP-MS. We demonstrated a dominance of dissolved metals in the 1-10 kDa fraction, and metals such as Cu, Zn, Ni, Co, Pb, Cd and Mn were mostly regulated by terrestrial fulvic acid. The larger inorganic colloids played a limited role, although Fe reduction was likely to affect the size partitioning of colloidal Mn. The holding pond represented a source of trace metals and chromophoric and humic-like dissolved organic matter to the estuary. Scavenging or removal behavior became evident following the intermittent mixing, and the small sized colloidal organic complexes were responsible for binding and stabilizing trace metals. Variations in particle size distributions indicated different sources, fates and geochemical controls of the metals. Our results highlighted the impacts of both natural and anthropogenic processes on the transformation of trace metals among phases in this dynamic estuary system. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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