Methyltins in the marine environment

Date

1983-08-01

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Tuğrul, Süleyman
Turgut I, Balkas
Goldberg, Edward D

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Methyltins were occasionally observed in some natural waters. The nature of a marine sediment determines its organotin burdens. Mono- and dimethyltin compounds were found in polluted marine sediments whereas non-polluted, oxiccoastal sediments contained primarily trimethyltin. The net methylation rate is evidently independent of the inorganic tin content of a sediment. Methyltin in fish is about 3–6% of the total tin content while limpets contain significant amounts of organotin compounds, ranging between 35 and 75% of the total tin. No trimethyltin was detected in green macro-algae and seawater, although limpets, fish and sediments have measurable levels.

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Aquatic Science, Pollution, Oceanography

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56388

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Graduate School of Marine Sciences, Article