Thiols in wetland interstitial waters and their role in mercury and methylmercury speciation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Organic sulfhydryl compounds, or thiols, are ligands that strongly complex class B metals such as Hg and methylmercury (MeHg). We determined the concentration profiles of five low‐molecular‐weight thiols (cysteine, thioglycolic acid, glutathione, N ‐acetyl‐L‐cysteine, and 3‐mercaptopropionic acid) in sediment interstitial waters, at a vertical resolution of 1 cm, in three contrasting freshwater and brackish wetlands in Canada. All five thiols were detected in the porewaters, with concentrations ranging from nanomolar to submicromolar. In one of the wetlands (Baie St. Francois) the profiles of Hg and MeHg were also obtained at the same vertical resolution. Thermodynamic calculations revealed that at these levels thiols play a negligible role in inorganic Hg speciation in sediment interstitial waters, but they can dominate the MeHg speciation. Consistent with recent findings that intracellular MeHg in fish is dominated by MeHg‐thiol complexes, this suggests that thiols also play a significant role in MeHg speciation in the extracellular environment.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".