FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Measurement and modeling of mercury complexation by dissolved organic matter isolates from freshwater and effluents of a major wastewater treatment plant BT AF MURESAN, Bogdan PERNET-COUDRIER, Benoit COSSA, Daniel VARRAULT, Gilles AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:1; FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-RBE-BE-LBCM;4:; C1 Univ Paris Est Creteil, UMR MA 102, LEESU, AgroParisTech, F-94010 Creteil, France. IFREMER, Ctr Mediterranee, Lab Biogeochim Contaminants Metall, F-83507 La Seyne Sur Mer, France. C2 UNIV UPEC, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI TOULON SE PDG-RBE-BE-LBCM IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france copubli-univ-france IF 2.176 TC 15 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00060/17108/14717.pdf LA English DT Article AB Dissolved organic matter (DOM) samples were obtained from a low-density urbanized area located upstream of Paris (along the Marne River, France) and from the treated effluents at the Paris main wastewater treatment plant. These samples were then fractionated according to their hydrophobicity. DOM fractions consisted of nanomolar to sub-micromolar fresh organic substances with extremely strong Hg-complexing ligands. The conditional stability constants (i.e. K(HgL)'; pH similar to 6.8, I(NaCl) = 0.5 M, T = 25 degrees C) of the Hg-DOM complexes formed were greater than 10(24) M (1), for the reaction Hg(2+) + L = HgL (with L as ligand). For upstream of Paris, thermodynamic calculations indicated that the vast majority of Hg-DOM was associated with hydrophobic DOM. In contrast, in the Paris main wastewater treatment plant effluents, Hg-DOM was mainly bound to hydrophilic DOM. Simple dilution calculations highlighted that due to the large DOM loading of urban discharges, the hydrophilic urban DOM ligands may commonly dominate Hg-DOM speciation in the downstream Seine River, except under extreme dilution (i.e. high water episodes or floods). (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. PY 2011 PD DEC SO Applied Geochemistry SN 0883-2927 PU Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd VL 26 IS 12 UT 000297915500011 BP 2057 EP 2063 DI 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.07.003 ID 17108 ER EF