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Humic Substances in Ground Waters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

N. Paxéus
Affiliation:
Department of Analytical and Marine Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Göteborg, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
B. Allard
Affiliation:
Department of Water in Environment and Society, University of Linköping, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
U. Olofsson
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
M. Bengtsson
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
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Abstract

The humic materials isolated from ground waters of a borehole in Fjällveden (Sweden) were characterized by elemental and functional group analyses. Spectroscopic properties, molecular weight distributions as well as acid-base properties of the fulvic and humic fractions were also studied. The ground water humic substances were found to be quite similar in many respects (but not identical) to the Swedish surface water humics concentrated from the Gτ(b, A)öta River but appeared to be quite different from the American ground water humics from Biscayne Florida Aquifer or Laramie Fox-Hills in Colorado. The physico-chemical properties of the isolated humic materials are discussed.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1985

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