Adsorption of uranium(VI) to manganese oxides: X-ray absorption spectroscopy and surface complexation modeling

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 850-858

  Wang, Zimeng ^a   Lee, Sung Woo ^b   Catalano, Jeffrey G ^c   Lezama Pacheco, Juan S ^d   Bargar, John R ^d   Tebo, Bradley M ^b   Giammar, Daniel E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION AFFINITY; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CHEMICAL CONDITIONS; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; EXAFS; EXTENDED X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURES; FATE AND TRANSPORT; HEXAVALENT URANIUM; MINERAL SURFACES; MONODENTATES; NATURALLY OCCURRING; POTENTIAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; SURFACE COMPLEX; SURFACE COMPLEXATION MODELING; SURFACE COMPLEXATION MODELS;

EXTENDED X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; GROUNDWATER; MANGANESE OXIDE; OXIDES; URANIUM; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ADSORPTION;

MANGANESE OXIDE; URANIUM;

ADSORPTION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MANGANESE OXIDE; MOBILITY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SOIL POLLUTION; URANIUM; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ZETA POTENTIAL;

ADSORPTION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXIDES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; URANIUM; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84872503248     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304454g     Document Type: Article

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