Impact of nano-size weathering products on the dissolution rates of primary minerals

Chemical Geology

Volumn 282, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 11-18

  Emmanuel, Simon ^a   Ague, Jay J ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Interfacial free energy; Precipitation; Reaction kinetics

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SIZE; DISSOLUTION RATES; FIELD CONDITIONS; INTERFACIAL FREE ENERGY; KINETIC EQUATIONS; KINETIC MODELS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LARGE CRYSTAL; MINERAL DISSOLUTION; MINERAL PRECIPITATION; NANO-METER SCALE; NANO-SIZE; NATURAL WEATHERING; NEW APPROACHES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION KINETICS; REACTION RATE MODEL; SMALL CRYSTALS; SUBMICRON;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISSOLUTION; FREE ENERGY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; KINETIC THEORY; MINERALS; PHASE INTERFACES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SILICATE MINERALS; SOIL MECHANICS; STANDARDS; WEATHERING;

REACTION RATES;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISSOLUTION; KINETICS; MINERAL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REACTION KINETICS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUPERSATURATION; WEATHERING RATE;

EID: 79851508415     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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