Mobile colloid generation induced by a cementitious plume: Mineral surface-charge controls on mobilization

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2755-2763

  Li, Dien ^a   Kaplan, Daniel I ^a   Roberts, Kimberly A ^a   Seaman, John C ^b  

^a SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PH; BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; CEMENTING AGENTS; CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS; CHEMICAL CONDITIONS; COLLOID CONCENTRATION; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; ELECTROSTATIC ATTRACTIONS; ENGINEERED BARRIERS; HIGH PH; LEACHATE CHEMISTRY; LEACHATES; MEAN PARTICLE SIZE; MINERAL SURFACE CHARGE; MOBILE COLLOIDS; NEGATIVE CHARGE; NEGATIVE SURFACE CHARGES; POSITIVE SURFACE CHARGE; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; QUARTZ SURFACES; RADIOLOGICAL WASTES; REMOVAL MECHANISM; SAVANNAH RIVER SITES; SUBSURFACE SEDIMENTS; WASTE FORMS;

ALKALINITY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CEMENTS; COLLOIDS; IONIC STRENGTH; KAOLINITE; LEACHING; MINERALS; PH; QUARTZ; RADIOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFACE CHARGE; TURBIDITY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

COLLOID CHEMISTRY;

ALUMINUM SILICATE; FERRIC HYDROXIDE;

CEMENT; COLLOID; DILUTION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LEACHATE; MINERAL; MOBILITY; MOBILIZATION; PH; PLUME; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; TURBIDITY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); IONIC STRENGTH; LEACHING; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; PLUME; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE CHARGE; TURBIDITY;

CATIONS; COLLOIDS; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ELECTRICITY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MINERALS; MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

SAVANNAH RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863245752     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es2040834     Document Type: Article

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