Hydrogen-deficient molecules in natural riverine water samples—evidence for the existence of black carbon in DOM

Understanding the role of black carbon (BC) in the natural environment is very important because of the potential impacts of black carbon on human health, global carbon cycling, and pollutant transport. There has been circumstantial evidence for the existence of black carbon molecules in dissolved o...

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Published inMarine chemistry Vol. 92; no. 1; pp. 225 - 234
Main Authors Kim, Sunghwan, Kaplan, Louis A., Benner, Ronald, Hatcher, Patrick G.
Format Journal Article Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.12.2004
Elsevier Science
Subjects
Black carbon
Dissolved organic matter
Earth sciences
Earth, ocean, space
Electrospray ionization
Exact sciences and technology
External geophysics
Freshwater
Geochemistry
Mass spectrometry
Mineralogy
Physical and chemical properties of sea water
Physics of the oceans
Silicates
Water geochemistry
Dissolved organic matter
Black carbon
Mass spectrometry
Electrospray ionization
sea water
spectra
global
hydrogen
transport
pollutants
Earth
hydrochemistry
materials
carbon
organic materials
high resolution
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Summary:Understanding the role of black carbon (BC) in the natural environment is very important because of the potential impacts of black carbon on human health, global carbon cycling, and pollutant transport. There has been circumstantial evidence for the existence of black carbon molecules in dissolved organic matter (DOM); however, direct evidence has been lacking. In this paper, the presence of black carbon-like material in DOM is demonstrated for the first time. Electrospray ionization (ESI) with ultra-high resolution mass spectrometric analyses of DOM samples reveals the existence of hydrogen-deficient molecules. The van Krevelen analysis of the ultra-high resolution mass spectra clearly differentiates black carbon-like material from the complex assemblage of other, relatively hydrogen-rich natural molecules and indicates that the hydrogen-deficient molecules in the DOM are from black carbon-like material. The observation of black carbon molecules in DOM suggests that BC may be degraded and included in the active carbon pools of the earth.
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ISSN:0304-4203
1872-7581
DOI:10.1016/j.marchem.2004.06.042