Dissolved organic carbon reduces uranium bioavailability and toxicity. 1. characterization of an aquatic fulvic acid and its complexation with uranium[VI]

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3075-3081

  Trenfield, Melanie A ^a,g   McDonald, Suzanne ^b   Kovacs, Krisztina ^c   Lesher, Emily K ^d   Pringle, Jennifer M ^e   Markich, Scott J ^f   Ng, Jack C ^g   Noller, Barry ^g   Brown, Paul L ^h   Van Dam, Rick A ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE SUPERVISING SCIENTIST   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^d Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f Aquatic Solutions International   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^h Rio Tinto Technology and Innovation   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID-BASE TITRATION; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; FLOW FIELD-FLOW FRACTIONATION; FRESHWATER ORGANISMS; FULVIC ACIDS; GEOCHEMICAL SPECIATION; MAGIC ANGLE SPINNING; METAL CONTAMINANTS; NEGATIVE CHARGE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SUWANNEE RIVER FULVIC ACID;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMATERIALS; COMPLEXATION; FRACTIONATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC CARBON; RESINS; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; STREAM FLOW; TITRATION; TOXICITY; URANIUM;

URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

FULVIC ACID; ORGANIC CARBON; PROTON; URANIUM;

BILLABONG; BIOAVAILABILITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COMPLEXATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; FULVIC ACID; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PH; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RESIN; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); URANIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FIELD FLOW FRACTIONATION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; LAGOON; TOXICITY; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BENZOPYRANS; CARBON; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79953235900     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103330w     Document Type: Article

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