Inhibition effect of secondary phosphate mineral precipitation on uranium release from contaminated sediments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8344-8349

  Shi, Zhenqing ^a   Liu, Chongxuan ^a   Zachara, John M ^a   Wang, Zheming ^a   Deng, Baolin ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPONENT; CHEMICAL EXTRACTIONS; COLUMN SYSTEMS; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; DIFFUSION LIMITED; HANFORD; HANFORD SITE; INHIBITION EFFECT; INHIBITORY EFFECT; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MINERAL PHASIS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOSPHATE TREATMENT; PORE VOLUME; SOLID-PHASE; STOICHIOMETRIC RATIO; SYNTHETIC GROUNDWATER; TREATED SEDIMENTS; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY;

ADSORPTION; CALCIUM; EFFLUENTS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROXYAPATITE; LEACHING; MINERALS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; POLLUTION; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER TREATMENT;

SEDIMENTS;

HYDROXYAPATITE; PHOSPHATE; URANIUM;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEACHING; LITHIC FRAGMENT; PHOSPHATE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEDIMENT POLLUTION; STOCHASTICITY; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRECIPITATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY; UNITED STATES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ADSORPTION; CALCIUM; CARBON; CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MINERALS; PHOSPHATES; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS; URANIUM;

EID: 70449379356     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9021359     Document Type: Article

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