How mobile are sorbed cations in clays and clay rocks?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1443-1449

  Gimmi, T ^a,b   Kosakowski, G ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE MOBILITY; BARRIER MATERIAL; CATION DIFFUSION; CHEMICAL CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; DIFFUSION DATA; DIFFUSIVE FLUX; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; LOW SALINITY; SORPTION AFFINITY; SORPTION COEFFICIENTS; SURFACE DIFFUSION MODEL; SURFACE MOBILITY; TRACE CONCENTRATIONS; WASTE DISPOSAL SITES; WATER TRACERS;

DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; SORPTION; SURFACE DIFFUSION; SURFACES; WASTE DISPOSAL;

POSITIVE IONS;

CATION; TRACER; WATER; ALUMINUM SILICATE; CLAY;

CLAY; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MOBILITY; SALINITY; SORPTION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CLAY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ROCK; SALINITY; WASTE DISPOSAL; CHEMISTRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADSORPTION; ALUMINUM SILICATES; CATIONS; DIFFUSION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER;

EID: 79951592208     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1027794     Document Type: Article

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