The effect of As, Co, and Ni impurities on pyrite oxidation kinetics: Batch and flow-through reactor experiments with synthetic pyrite

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1788-1800

  Lehner, Stephen ^a   Savage, Kaye ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; IRON; KINETICS; MINERAL SYNTHESIS; OXIDATION; PH; PYRITE; SAMPLING;

COLORADO; ELBA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LEADVILLE; LIVORNO [TUSCANY]; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCAN ARCHIPELAGO; TUSCANY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40949095937     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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