Quantifying differences in the impact of variable chemistry on equilibrium uranium(VI) adsorption properties of aquifer sediments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 8733-8740

  Stoliker, Deborah L ^a   Kent, Douglas B ^a   Zachara, John M ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION DESORPTION; ADSORPTION EQUILIBRIA; ADSORPTION PROPERTIES; BEST FIT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHEMICAL CONDITIONS; DATA POINTS; EQUILIBRIUM ADSORPTION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; HANFORD; MODEL CALIBRATION; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; POTENTIAL ERRORS; REACTION STOICHIOMETRY; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SURFACE COMPLEXATION; URANIUM ADSORPTION; URANIUM CONCENTRATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AQUIFERS; COMPLEXATION; DESORPTION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS; ERRORS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STOICHIOMETRY; SURFACE REACTIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URANIUM; URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

ADSORPTION;

URANIUM;

ADSORPTION; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPLEXATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DESORPTION; DISSOLVED MATTER; EQUILIBRIUM; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; STOICHIOMETRY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URANIUM;

ADSORPTION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FLUID BALANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; STOICHIOMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ADSORPTION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; URANIUM;

HANFORD; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 80054711868     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202677v     Document Type: Article

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