Chemical and structural characterization of As immobilization by nanoparticles of mackinawite (FeSm)

Chemical Geology

Volumn 268, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 116-125

  Renock, Devon ^a   Gallegos, Tanya ^b   Utsunomiya, Satoshi ^c   Hayes, Kim ^b   Ewing, Rodney C ^a   Becker, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arsenic contamination; Iron sulfides; Mackinawite

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; IMMOBILIZATION; IRON SULFIDE; MACKINAWITE; OXIDATION; PHASE TRANSITION; REDOX CONDITIONS;

EID: 70349402558     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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