Comparison of bauxite and Bayer liquor humic substances by 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Implications for the fate of humic substances in the Bayer Process

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 4198-4202

  Baker, Alex R ^a,b   Greenaway, Anthony M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAUXITE; BAYER PROCESS; FULVIC ACID; HUMIC ACID;

ACIDITY; EXTRACTION; MACROMOLECULES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS;

EID: 0032181047     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9801352     Document Type: Article

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