Redox transformations and transport of cesium and iodine (-1, 0, +5) in oxidizing and reducing zones of a sand and gravel aquifer

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1940-1946

  Fox, Patricia M ^a   Kent, Douglas B ^a   Davis, James A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION EXCHANGE REACTIONS; GRAVEL AQUIFERS; MOLECULAR IODINE; REDOX CHEMISTRY; REDOX TRANSFORMATIONS; RETARDATION FACTORS; SORPTION PROPERTIES; TRACER TESTS; TRANSPORT DISTANCES;

AQUIFERS; CESIUM; GRAVEL; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; IODINE; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SORPTION;

CESIUM COMPOUNDS;

CESIUM; IODATE; IODINE; IRON; RADIOISOTOPE;

CESIUM; IODIDE; ION EXCHANGE; OXIC CONDITIONS; RADIONUCLIDE; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TRACER;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CATION EXCHANGE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL REACTION; DETOXIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SAND;

ADSORPTION; CESIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IODIDES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CAPE COD; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949384410     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902865s     Document Type: Article

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