Scorodite dissolution kinetics: Implications for arsenic release

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 6709-6714

  Harvey, Mary C ^a   Schreiber, Madeline E ^a   Rimstidt, J Donald ^a   Griffith, Martha M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DISSOLUTION; PH EFFECTS; REACTION KINETICS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DISSOLUTION KINETICS; INCONGRUENT DISSOLUTION; STABILITY DIAGRAM;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; IRON DERIVATIVE; OXIDE; SCORODITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARSENIC; DISSOLUTION; IRON COMPOUNDS; PH EFFECTS; REACTION KINETICS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ARSENIC; DISSOLUTION; KINETICS; MINERAL; PH; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FIELD STUDY; PH;

ARSENIC; ARSENICALS; CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; KINETICS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33750848160     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061399f     Document Type: Article

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