PubMed Health⌕ Search

SEARCH · PubMed Health

Results for “Humic Substances”

Explore indexed PubMed citations for clinical trials, systematic reviews and public health research. Read source abstracts and follow each citation to its original PubMed record.

Quote a phrase for an exact phrase match. Source license links do not imply unrestricted reuse.

At least 775 records · Page 43Linked to original sources
PubMed2002

Adsorption-desorption behavior of acetochlor to soils in the presence of some environmental substances.

The behavior of herbicide acetochlor adsorption-desorption to soil in the presence of humic acid (HA), anionic surfactant sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (SDBS), cationic surfactant hexadecyltrimethyl-ammonium bromide (HDAB) and NH4NO3 as a chemical fertilizer was studied. Observed acetochlor adsorption isotherm were well described using Freundlich isotherm equation, from which the desorption isotherm equation has been deduced. The deduced equation can more directly describe acetochlor desorption process. The results showed that the enhance of acetochlor adsorption capacity by solid HA was greater than by soluble HA. The presence of NH4 NO3 can slightly enhance acetochlor adsorption to soil by comparison with that measured in NH4 NO3-free solution. In soil-water system, surfactant-acetochlor interaction is very complex, and the surfactant adsorptions as well as acetochlor adsorption need to be considered. When acetochlor-soil suspensions contained lower concentration SDBS or HDAB (40 mg/L), Kf for acetochlor adsorption was decreased in comparison to that measured in SDBS- or HDAB-free solution. When acetochlor-soil suspensions contained higher concentration SDBS or HDAB (corresponding 1400 mg/L or 200 mg/L), Kf for acetochlor adsorption was increased in comparison to that measured in SDBS- or HDAB-free solution.

Adsorption↗
PubMed2006

Fluorescence and DOC contents of estuarine pore waters from colonized and non-colonized sediments: effects of sampling preservation.

The influence of the colonization of salt marsh sediments with Halimione portulacoides was evaluated by analysing the fluorescent dissolved organic matter (FDOM) in sediment pore waters from a salt marsh at different depths. Cores of sediments at colonized and non-colonized sites were collected from a coastal lagoon (Ria de Aveiro, Portugal). The DOC content of extracted pore waters was determined and characterized by synchronous molecular fluorescence (Deltalambda=60nm) and UV-visible spectroscopies. The common practice of freezing sediment cores for further and later chemical investigation was shown not to be an appropriate methodology of sample preservation. On the contrary, freezing of extracted and filtered pore water seemed not to affect either the DOC content or the fluorescence properties of pore waters. Two types of fluorescent substances were found in the pore waters spectra; one corresponding to humic-like substances and another one resembling proteins. However, major differences were found in the spectra of pore waters depending on both depth and the presence/absence of vegetation colonization.

Carbon↗