Effect of desorption kinetics on colloid-facilitated transport of contaminants: Cesium, strontium, and illite colloids

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Turner, Ned B ^a   Ryan, Joseph N ^a   Saiers, James E ^b  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESORPTION; HYDROLOGY; IMPURITIES; STRONTIUM;

ADVECTION; DESORPTION KINETICS; MODEL SIMULATIONS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

CESIUM; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESORPTION; HYDROLOGY; IMPURITIES; POROUS MATERIALS; STRONTIUM;

CESIUM; COLLOID; DESORPTION; ILLITE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; QUARTZ; SATURATED MEDIUM; STRONTIUM;

EID: 33846639724     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR004972     Document Type: Article

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