Fe-solid phase transformations under highly basic conditions

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2054-2064

  Qafoku, Nikolla P ^a   Qafoku, Odeta ^a   Ainsworth, Calvin C ^a   Dohnalkova, Alice ^a   McKinley, Susan G ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRON COMPOUNDS; PRECIPITATES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SEDIMENTS;

PHASE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FLUIDS; WASTE FLUIDS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

CANCRINITE; DISSOLUTION; GOETHITE; HEMATITE; IRON HYDROXIDE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TRANSFORMATION;

HANFORD; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 34547936309     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.04.023     Document Type: Article

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