Characterization of suboxic groundwater colloids using a multi-method approach

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2554-2561

  Lapworth, Dan J ^a   Stolpe, Björn ^b   Williams, Peter J ^a   Gooddy, Daren C ^a   Lead, Jamie R ^b,c  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY METHODS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; FLOW FIELD FLOW FRACTIONATIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION TEM; HYDRODYNAMIC DIAMETER; MULTI-METHOD APPROACH; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COLLOIDS; DIFFUSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GROUNDWATER;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; GROUND WATER; IRON; NANOPARTICLE;

ABSORPTION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; COLLOID; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUNDWATER; PERTURBATION; SHALLOW WATER; SUBOXIC CONDITIONS;

AERATION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COLLOID; DIFFUSION; FIELD FLOW FRACTIONATION; FLOODPLAIN; HYDRODYNAMICS; LANDFILL LEACHATE; MACROMOLECULE; PILOT STUDY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UNITED KINGDOM;

COLLOIDS; FRACTIONATION, FIELD FLOW; GROUNDWATER; IRON; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 84875310453     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3045778     Document Type: Article

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