The fate of technetium in reduced estuarine sediments: Combining direct and indirect analyses

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 233-241

  Burke, Ian T ^a   Livens, Francis R ^b   Lloyd, Jonathan R ^b   Brown, Andrew P ^a   Law, Gareth T W ^a   McBeth, Joyce M ^b   Ellis, Beverley L ^c   Lawson, Richard S ^c   Morris, Katherine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC INCUBATION; CHEMICAL EXTRACTIONS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY; ENGINEERED ENVIRONMENTS; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; GAMMA CAMERAS; HETEROGENEOUS SEDIMENTS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; NANOMETRES; REDUCING CONDITIONS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT MICROCOSMS; SOLUBILITY LIMITS; STRONG OXIDANTS; TECHNETIUM 99;

CAMERAS; COMPLEXATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESTUARIES; EXPERIMENTS; FISSION PRODUCTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; IRON COMPOUNDS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SORPTION; TECHNETIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SEDIMENTS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; EXTRACTION METHOD; MICROCOSM; OXIC CONDITIONS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REMOBILIZATION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SOLUBILITY; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TECHNETIUM ISOTOPE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 74449086548     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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