Natural attenuation of uranium and formation of autunite at the expense of apatite within an oxidizing environment, south Eastern Desert of Egypt

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3741-3755

  Abd El Naby, Hamdy H ^a,b   Dawood, Yehia H ^a,c  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NUCLEAR MATERIALS AUTHORITY   (Egypt)

^c Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; CALCIUM; CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; DISSOLUTION; EUROPIUM; HYDROXYAPATITE; LANDFORMS; MINERALOGY; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; PHOTOMAPPING; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SOLUTIONS; SORPTION; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM; URANIUM ALLOYS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; YTTERBIUM;

ALTERATION PROCESSES; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; BACK SCATTERED ELECTRON IMAGING; BEARING SOLUTIONS; COMPOSITIONAL MAPPINGS; ELECTRON PROBES; GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; HEAVY RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; LATTER MECHANISMS; LOW TEMPERATURES; NATURAL ATTENUATIONS; OXIDIZING ENVIRONMENTS; SPECTRAL SCANS; THREE PHASIS; URANYL IONS; X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS;

APATITE;

APATITE; AUTUNITE; CALCIUM; CATION; DISSOLUTION; GRANITE; MINERALIZATION; NATURAL ATTENUATION; PH; RADICAL; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; REMEDIATION; URANIUM; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 56349153110     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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