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A comprehensive evaluation on the use of oxygen release compound in bioremediation [ORC]
1998
Koenigsberg, S.S.
EMEP eulerian model for atmospheric transport and deposition of nitrogen species over Europe
1998
Jonson, J.E. | Bartnicki, J. | Olendrzynski, K. | Jakobsen, H.A. | Berge, E. (Meteorological Synthesizing Centre - West of EMEP, The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 43, Blindern N-0313 Oslo (Norway))
Phosphine by bio-corrosion of phosphide-rich iron
1998
Glindemann, Dietmar | Eismann, Frank | Bergmann, Armin | Kuschk, Peter | Stottmeister, Ulrich
Phosphine is a toxic agent and part of the phosphorus cycle. A hitherto unknown formation mechanism for phosphine in the environment was investigated. When iron samples containing iron phosphide were incubated in corrosive aquatic media affected by microbial metabolites, phosphine was liberated and measured by gas chromatography. Iron liberates phosphine especially in anoxic aquatic media under the influence of sulfide and an acidic pH. A phosphine-forming mechanism is suggested: Phosphate, an impurity of iron containing minerals, is reduced abioticly to iron phosphide. When iron is exposed to the environment (e.g. as outdoor equipment, scrap, contamination in iron milled food or as iron meteorites) and corrodes, the iron phosphide present in the iron is suspended in the medium and can hydrolyze to phosphine. Phosphine can accumulate to measurable quantities in anoxic microbial media, accelerating corrosion and preserving the phosphine formed from oxidation.
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