Visualizing different uranium oxidation states during the surface alteration of uraninite and uranium tetrachloride

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 963-974

  Grossmann, Kay ^a   Arnold, Thuro ^a   Steudtner, Robin ^a   Weiss, Stefan ^a   Bernhard, Gert ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CLSM; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Oxidation states; Uraninite UO2; Uranium; Uranium tetrachloride UCl4

Indexed keywords

UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANITE; URANIUM DERIVATIVE; URANIUM TETRACHLORIDE;

ELEMENT MOBILITY; LOW TEMPERATURE; OXIDATION; URANINITE; URANIUM; VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATOM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CHLORIDES; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; URANIUM; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 68349088079     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-009-0558-1     Document Type: Article

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