Natural arsenic attenuation via metal arsenate precipitation in soils contaminated with metallurgical wastes: I. wet chemical and thermodynamic evidences

Aquatic Geochemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 225-250

  Villalobos, M ^a   Garcia Payne D G ^a   Lopez Zepeda J L ^a   Ceniceros Gomez A E ^a   Gutierrez Ruiz M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Contamination; Metal arsenate; Metallurgical wastes; Soils; Solubility

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ARSENATE; ARSENIC; EXTRACTION METHOD; HEAVY METAL; METALLURGY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SOIL POLLUTION; SOLUBILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77951977868     PISSN: 13806165     EISSN: 15731421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10498-009-9065-4     Document Type: Article

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