XAS and XMCD evidence for species-dependent partitioning of arsenic during microbial reduction of ferrihydrite to magnetite

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 7745-7750

  Coker, V S ^a   Gault, A G ^a   Pearce, C I ^a   Van Der Laan, G ^a,b   Telling, N D ^b   Charnock, J M ^a,b   Polya, D A ^a   Lloyd, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXICBIOGEOCHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAGNETITE STRUCTURE; SPECIES-DEPENDENT MOBILITY;

AQUIFERS; DISSOLUTION; MAGNETITE; MICROORGANISMS; REDUCTION; SEDIMENTS;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; FERRIHYDRITE; FRESH WATER; GROUND WATER; IRON COMPLEX; MAGNETITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; DISSOLUTION; MAGNETITE; MICROORGANISMS; REDUCTION; SEDIMENTS;

ARSENIC; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMICAL BONDING; DIAGENESIS; FERRIHYDRITE; MAGNETITE; PARTITIONING; REDUCTION; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; REDUCTION; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; SPECTROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY; WATER CONTAMINATION; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM;

ARSENIC; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; GEOBACTER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS;

EID: 33845807519     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es060990+     Document Type: Article

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