Retention of mercury by soils

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In a previous paper AOMINE et al. (1) investigated the mercury content of paddy and orchard soils on which crops had been sprayed with mercurial fungicides over periods up to about 10 years. They found that in some soils the retention of mercury was confined to the surface layer, whilst in other soils mercury was obviously leached out from the surface soil, and they suggested that the translocation of mercury compounds through the soil profile depended on the content of organic and inorganic colloids. The adsorption of organic mercury compounds by soils finds mention in several papers (1–4, 9). TAKEUCHI and IDE (9) studied the effect of a soil on the bioactivity of four organic mercury compounds, and showed that these compounds underwent a change in fungicidal activity as a result of adsorption by the soil.

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