Electrical conductivity as an indicator of iron reduction rates in abiotic and biotic systems

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Regberg, Aaron ^a   Singha, Kamini ^a   Tien, Ming ^a   Picardal, Flynn ^b   Zheng, Quanxing ^b   Schieber, Jurgen ^b   Roden, Eric ^c   Brantley, Susan L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID BASE; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY; CHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; COLUMN PORES; COMPOSITE REACTIONS; CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE; FE OXIDE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLUID CHEMISTRY; IRON REDUCTION; LATE STAGE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; OXIDE REDUCTION; PERCOLATION THEORY; REACTION STOICHIOMETRY;

AQUIFERS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOFILMS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRON OXIDES; REDOX REACTIONS; SOLVENTS; SORPTION; STOICHIOMETRY;

REACTION RATES;

AQUIFER; BIOFILM; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; IRON; IRON OXIDE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PORE SPACE; SORPTION; STOICHIOMETRY; WATER CHEMISTRY;

EID: 79955050958     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009551     Document Type: Article

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