Reduction and reoxidation of humic acid: Influence on speciation of cadmium and silver

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 8808-8816

  Maurer, Felix ^a   Christl, Iso ^a   Hoffmann, Martin ^a   Kretzschmar, Ruben ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE EXPERIMENTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; HUMIC ACID; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; METAL CATION; NATURALLY OCCURRING; PROTON BINDING SITES; RE-OXIDATION; REDOX CONDITION; REDOX-ACTIVE; REDUCED OXIDATION; REDUCING CONDITIONS; SULFUR K-EDGE; TRACE METAL; TRANSFER ELECTRONS; XANES;

BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; EXPERIMENTS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SULFUR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SILVER;

CADMIUM; CALCIUM; HUMIC ACID; METAL ION; PROTON; SILVER; SULFUR; TRACE METAL;

CADMIUM; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; HUMIC ACID; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; REDOX CONDITIONS; REDOX POTENTIAL; SILVER; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; METAL BINDING; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CADMIUM; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SILVER;

EID: 84865476386     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301520s     Document Type: Article

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