Combined application of QEM-SEM and hard X-ray microscopy to determine mineralogical associations and chemical speciation of trace metals

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 767-783

  Gräfe, Markus ^a   Landers, Matthew ^a   Tappero, Ryan ^b   Austin, Peter ^a   Gan, Bee ^a   Grabsch, Alton ^a   Klauber, Craig ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAUXITE RESIDUE; ELECTRON-TRANSFER REACTIONS; HARD X RAY; ILMENITE STRUCTURE; MATRIX; MICRO X-RAY FLUORESCENCE; MICRO-X-RAY; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; MINERAL-WATER INTERFACE; NEAR EDGE STRUCTURE; OXIDATION STATE; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; REDOX BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; TRACE METAL; TRACE METAL SPECIATION; WET CHEMICALS; XANES;

ADSORPTION; CHEMICAL SPECIATION; CHROMIUM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION; ILMENITE; IRON ORES; IRON OXIDES; MANGANESE; METALS; MINERALOGY; OXIDATION; OXIDE MINERALS; REDOX REACTIONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICATE MINERALS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM OXIDES; VANADIUM; X RAYS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

BUFFER; CHROMIUM; MANGANESE; TITANIUM; TRACE METAL; VANADIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MICRO X RAY ABSORPTION NEAR EDGE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MINERALOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 79956119189     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2010.0214     Document Type: Article

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