Titration curves: A useful instrument for assessing the buffer systems of acidic mining waters

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 215-224

  Totsche, Oliver ^a   Fyson, Andrew ^a,b   Kalin, Margarete ^b   Steinberg, Christian E W ^a,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b Boojum Research Limited   (Canada)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Acid base titration; Acidity; Base neutralization capacity (BNC); Mine waters; pH buffering

Indexed keywords

ACID; BUFFER;

ACIDITY; BUFFERING; MINE; OXIDATION; PH; SULFIDE; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METHODOLOGY; MINING; PH; SEDIMENT; TITRIMETRY; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ACIDS; BUFFERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MINING; TITRIMETRY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33746520085     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1065/espr2005.09.284     Document Type: Article

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