Impact of mercury speciation on its removal from water by activated carbon and organoclay

Ke Gai1, Astrid Avellan1, Thomas P Hoelen2

  • 1Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States; Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States.

Water Research
|April 20, 2019
PubMed

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