An integrated colloid fractionation approach applied to the characterisation of porewater uranium-humic interactions at a depleted uranium contaminated site

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 404, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 207-217

  Graham, Margaret C ^a   Oliver, Ian W ^b   MacKenzie, Angus B ^b   Ellam, Robert M ^b   Farmer, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aquatic colloids; Gel electrophoresis; Gel filtration; Humic substances; Ultrafiltration; Uranium

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; COLLOID CHEMISTRY; CONTAMINATION; DISSOLUTION; ELECTROPHORESIS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; GELATION; GELS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOTORESISTS; PLASMAS; POROUS MATERIALS; SEPARATION; SOILS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; ULTRAFILTRATION; URANIUM;

AQUATIC COLLOIDS; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GEL FILTRATION; HUMIC COLLOIDS; HUMIC SUBSTANCES;

COLLOIDS;

ALUMINUM; HUMIC ACID; IRON; TRACE METAL; URANIUM; WATER;

CENTRIFUGE; COLLOID; CONTAMINATED LAND; FRACTIONATION; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; POREWATER; TRACE METAL; ULTRAFILTRATION; URANIUM;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; COLLOID; CONTAMINATION; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; FRACTIONATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GEL FILTRATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; ULTRAFILTRATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; COLLOIDS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOIL; ULTRAFILTRATION; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 51149083232     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.042     Document Type: Article

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