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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - How well can we predict and measure metal speciation in freshwaters?
AU - Hamilton-Taylor, John
AU - Ahmed, Imad
AU - Davison, William
AU - Zhang, Hao
PY - 2011/10/4
Y1 - 2011/10/4
N2 - The ‘speciation’ of metals is concerned with their different chemical and physical forms, a detailed knowledge of which is essential to understand what happens to metals in lakes and rivers, and their effects on living organisms. There have been many advances in recent years in our ability both to measure and predict metal speciation in natural waters, but it is not clear just how accurately these can be applied under field conditions. The current state of play is assessed to provide a better understanding of the related uncertainties, and suggestions are made for ways to reduce these uncertainties and possibly improve our predictive capabilities.
AB - The ‘speciation’ of metals is concerned with their different chemical and physical forms, a detailed knowledge of which is essential to understand what happens to metals in lakes and rivers, and their effects on living organisms. There have been many advances in recent years in our ability both to measure and predict metal speciation in natural waters, but it is not clear just how accurately these can be applied under field conditions. The current state of play is assessed to provide a better understanding of the related uncertainties, and suggestions are made for ways to reduce these uncertainties and possibly improve our predictive capabilities.
KW - Chemical speciation,
KW - Freshwater
KW - modelling
KW - WHAM
KW - NICA–Donnan
KW - DGT
U2 - 10.1071/EN11031
DO - 10.1071/EN11031
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 461
EP - 465
JO - Environmental Chemistry
JF - Environmental Chemistry
SN - 1448-2517
IS - 5
ER -