Thallium isotopes in metallurgical wastes/contaminated soils: A novel tool to trace metal source and behavior

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41210/18:74024 RIV/60460709:41330/18:74024

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.09.020" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.09.020</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.09.020" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.09.020</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Thallium isotopes in metallurgical wastes/contaminated soils: A novel tool to trace metal source and behavior

Original language description

Thallium (Tl) concentration and isotope data have been recorded for contaminated soils and a set of industrial wastes that were produced within different stages of Zn ore mining and metallurgical processing of Zn-rich materials. Despite large differences in Tl levels of the waste materials (1-500 mg kg(-1)), generally small changes in epsilon Tl-205 values have been observed. However, isotopically lighter Tl was recorded in fly ash (epsilon Tl-205 similar to -4.1) than in slag (epsilon Tl-205 similar to -3.3), implying partial isotope fractionation during material processing. Thallium isotope compositions in the studied soils reflected the Tl contamination (epsilon Tl-205 similar to -3.8), despite the fact that the major pollution period ended more than 30 years ago. Therefore, we assume that former industrial Tl inputs into soils, if significant, can potentially be traced using the isotope tracing method. We also suggest that the isotope redistributions occurred in some soil (subsurface) horizons, with Tl being isotopically heavier than the pollution source, due to specific sorption and/or precipitation processes, which complicates the discrimination of primary Tl. Thallium isotope analysis proved to be a promising tool to aid our understanding of Tl behavior within the smelting process, as well as its post-depositional dynamics in the environmental systems (soils).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Hazardous Materials

ISSN

0304-3894

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

343

Issue of the periodical within the volume

FEBRUARY

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

78-85

UT code for WoS article

000414106700009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85029603960