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J. Phys. IV France
Volume 12, Numéro 10, November 2002
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| Page(s) | 143 - 160 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/jp4:20020457 | |
J. Phys. IV France 12 (2002) Pr10-143
DOI: 10.1051/jp4:20020457
Mercury as a global pollutant
L. Poissant1, A. Dommergue2 and C.P. Ferrari2, 31 Service Météorologique du Canada, Processus Atmospheriques des Toxiques, Environnement Canada, 105 rue McGill, Montréal, Québec, H2Y 2E7
2 Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement du CNRS, 54 rue Molière, BP. 96, 38402 Saint-Marfin-d'Hèrès, France
3 École Polytechnique Universitaire de Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier, 28 avenue Benoît Frachon, BP. 53, 38041 Grenoble, France
Abstract
Mercury may be one of the best-documented hazardous substances utilised by man. Still the uncovering
of the global human impacts on the environment through the use and mobilisation of mercury cannot be considered
complete. Recent mercury depletion events observed in the Arctic have opened the horizon to numerous new
aspects on mercury fate and cycling in the environment. This chapter browses various aspects of the extremely
complex cycling and fate of mercury in the perspective of mercury as a global pollutant and discusses some new
emerging research fields in mercury.
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