Reduction of hexavalent chromium by ferrous iron: A process of chromium isotope fractionation and its relevance to natural environments

Chemical Geology

Volumn 285, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 157-166

  Dossing L N ^a,b   Dideriksen, K ^a,c   Stipp, S L S ^a   Frei, R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Nordic Center for Earth Evolution NordCEE   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Banded iron formation; Chromium; Iron; Isotope fractionation; Thermal ionization mass spectrometer

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SYSTEM; BANDED IRON FORMATIONS; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CONSTANT RATE; CR ISOTOPES; CR REDUCTIONS; FERROUS IRON; FRACTIONATION FACTORS; GREEN RUST; HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; MARINE SYSTEMS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PH CONDITION; RAYLEIGH DISTILLATION; REDOX CONDITION; SURFACE SEAWATER; THERMAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETER;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; DISTILLATION; EXPERIMENTS; GROUND STATE; INTERCALATION; IRON; IRON ORES; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORE REDUCTION; SEAWATER; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHROMIUM;

BANDED IRON FORMATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHROMIUM; IRON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MAGNETITE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEAWATER; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

EID: 79957476215     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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