Chemical treatment of jordanian zeolitic tuff using dimethyl sulfoxide and thiourea

Asian Journal of Chemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2973-2983

  Amro, Abdulaziz N ^a,b   Yousef, Rushdi I ^a,c   Musleh, Salem M ^a  

^a AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b ROYAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY   (Jordan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PETRA   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Chemical treatment; Dimethyl sulfoxide; Heavy metal cations uptake; Jordanian zeolitic tuff; Thiourea

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849089025     PISSN: 09707077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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