A new measurement tool to consider for airborne pollutants evaluations using lichens
- Author:
- Perez Catán S., Bubach D. & Messuti M.I.
- Year:
- 2019
- Journal:
- Environmental Science and Pollution Research
- Pages:
- 26: 14689–14692
- Url:
An important factor affecting acquisition of pollution elements could be the lichen growth form. The Brunauer–Emmett–Teller
theory approach has been used to determinate the specific area surface (BET-area) of solids by gas multilayer adsorption. Taking
this standard method as a new tool, we measure the specific thallus area in foliose and fruticose lichens to evaluated area/volume
relation for bioaccumulation prospects. Some preliminary results of elemental contents such as REEs (La, Sc, Sr) and pollutants
(Cd, Co, Pb) were also measured to support the importance to use for the analysis of these thallus attributes.
Keywords: Atmospheric pollutants . Brunauer–Emmett–Teller theory . Lichen thallus . Specific area surface.
- Id:
- 31304
- Submitter:
- zdenek
- Post_time:
- Monday, 17 June 2019 22:30