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Table 1 Factors influencing Hg retention with maize whiskers

From: Retention properties and mechanism of agricultural waste maize whisker on atmospheric mercury

Experimental objective

Mass of maize whiskers (g)

Exposure time (h)

Hg initial concentration (μg m−3)

pH value

Effect of mass of maize whiskers

0/0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4

2

0.1

4

Effect of exposure time

0.2

0/1/2/3/4

0.1

4

Effect of Hg initial concentration

0.2

2

0/0.05/0.1/0.2/0.4

4

Effect of pH value

0.2

2

0.1

2/3/4/5/6