The role of dissolved molecular oxygen in abiotic pyrite oxidation under acid pH conditions - Experiments with 18O-enriched molecular oxygen

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1664-1675

  Heidel, Claudia ^a   Tichomirowa, Marion ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID CONDITIONS; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CATHODIC REDUCTIONS; DOMINANT MECHANISM; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; HEADSPACES; INJECTION VOLUME; INTERMEDIATE SPECIE; PH CONDITION; PYRITE OXIDATION; PYRITE SURFACES; REACTION VESSEL; TETRATHIONATE; WATER MOLECULE;

ACIDS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EXPERIMENTS; ISOTOPES; OXIDATION; PH; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; SOLUTIONS;

MOLECULAR OXYGEN;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; IRON; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OXIDATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PH; PYRITE; SULFITE;

EID: 77958463288     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2010.08.014     Document Type: Article

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