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Volatile metal and metalloid species in gases from municipal waste deposits
Author(s) -
Hirner Alfred V.,
Feldmann Jörg,
Goguel Reiner,
Rapsomanikis Spyridon,
Fischer Ralf,
Andreae Meinrat O.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
applied organometallic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1099-0739
pISSN - 0268-2605
DOI - 10.1002/aoc.590080111
Subject(s) - metalloid , chemistry , environmental chemistry , antimony , arsenic , mercury (programming language) , bismuth , inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry , vanadium , bromine , tin , argon , metal , mass spectrometry , inorganic chemistry , organic chemistry , chromatography , computer science , programming language
We have detected volatile species of silicon, vanadium, arsenic, bromine, tin, antimony, tellurium, iodine, mercury, lead and bismuth in gases released from domestic waste deposits, using inductively coupled argon plasma mass spectrometry (ICP MS). By concurrent aspiration of a multielement standard solution for calibration, the element concentrations in deposit gas are found to be in the range from 0.1 ng m −3 to 10 μg m −3 gas. The global amount of some metal species emitted by this process may be of the order of several tons per year. These results suggest a biogeochemical pathway for the transfer of metals into the atmosphere via volatile species. This process may have significant influence on atmospheric cycling of metals as well as on metal toxicity within ecosystems.