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Published March 1985 | public
Journal Article

Thallium concentrations in seawater

Abstract

Measurements of the concentration of thallium in seawater collected from numerous ocean locations ranged from 12 to 16 ng kg^(−1). Variations between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, between the northern and southern hemispheres of the Pacific Ocean, and between surface and deep waters of both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans were comparable with the precision of the analyses. This relatively constant distribution indicates that the element's cycle in seawater may be similar to those of the alkali metals which are its principal biogeochemical analogues.

Additional Information

© 1985 Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. Received May 10, 1984; revision accepted September 20, 1984. This research has been supported by NSF grants OCE 7900696, OCE 8113211, and OCE 8309392, Marine Chemistry Division of Ocean Sciences. We are grateful to G. Gill, S. Nakamura, A. Ng and B. Schaule, who collected some of the samples and to M. Murozumi, who provided analytical expertise.

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