Measuring air-water interfacial areas with X-ray microtomography and interfacial partitioning tracer tests

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1956-1961

  Brusseau, Mark L ^a   Peng, Sheng ^a,b   Schnaar, Gregory ^a   Murao, Asami ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b GeoSystems Analysis Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MICROPOROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

WATER SATURATION; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

WATER ANALYSIS;

NITROGEN; WATER;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MICROPOROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; WATER ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AIR-WATER INTERACTION; PARTITIONING; POROUS MEDIUM; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRACER;

AIR; AIR WATER INTERFACIAL AREA; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

AIR; ARIZONA; BENZENESULFONATES; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POROSITY; SOIL; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER;

EID: 33947414838     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061474m     Document Type: Article

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