Arsenic mobilization through microbially mediated deflocculation of ferrihydrite

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3061-3068

  Tadanier, Christopher J ^a,b   Schreiber, Madeline E ^a   Roller, Jonathan W ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BACTERIA; COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; FLOCCULATION; HYDRIDES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POTABLE WATER; SLURRIES;

ARSENIC MOBILIZATION; DEFLOCCULATION; FERRIHYDRITES; NATURAL WATERS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; FERRIHYDRITE; IRON DERIVATIVE; NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARSENIC; FERRIHYDRITE; MOBILIZATION;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; COLLOID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXPERIMENT; FLOCCULATION; GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS; INOCULATION; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER TREATMENT; ZETA POTENTIAL;

ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FERRITINS; FLOCCULATION; GEOBACTER; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PARTICLE SIZE; WATER POLLUTANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS;

EID: 18344386867     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048206d     Document Type: Article

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