Mineralogical and spectroscopic characterization, and potential environmental use of limestone from the Abiod formation, Tunisia

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1275-1287

  Sdiri, Ali ^a,c   Higashi, Teruo ^a   Hatta, Tamao ^b   Jamoussi, Fakher ^c   Tase, Norio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c University of Carthage   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Calcium carbonate; Cretaceous; Industrial minerals; Spectroscopic analyses; Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CLAY FRACTIONS; CRETACEOUS; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; ENDOTHERMIC PEAKS; FT-IR SPECTRUM; FTIR; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; INDUSTRIAL MINERAL; LATE CRETACEOUS; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; MIXED LAYER; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SILICA CONTENT; SMECTITES; SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION; THERMAL ANALYSIS; TUNISIA; XRD; XRF ANALYSIS;

CALCITE; CALCIUM; CARBONATE MINERALS; CARBONATION; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); ECONOMICS; HEAVY METALS; KAOLINITE; LIMESTONE; MAGNESIUM; METAL ANALYSIS; MINERALS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THERMOANALYSIS; WASTEWATER;

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

ABSORPTION; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CRETACEOUS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; HEAVY METAL; LIMESTONE; MINERALOGY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SILICA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WASTEWATER; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

TUNISIA;

EID: 77956459655     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-010-0450-5     Document Type: Article

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