A review of microbial redox interactions with structural Fe in clay minerals

Clay Minerals

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 543-560

  Pentrakova L ^a,c   Su, K ^a,b   Pentrak M ^a,c   Stucki, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Environmental contaminants; Iron; Microbial reduction; Microorganisms; Redox reactions; Smectite

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICROBIAL REDUCTION; REDOX INTERACTIONS; SMECTITES; SOILS AND SEDIMENTS; SURROUNDING MATRIX;

CLAY MINERALS; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; KETONES; MICA; MICROORGANISMS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; REDOX REACTIONS; SOILS;

SEDIMENTS;

CLAY MINERAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; IRON; LITERATURE REVIEW; MATRIX; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; REDOX CONDITIONS;

EID: 84877131784     PISSN: 00098558     EISSN: 14718030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/claymin.2013.048.3.10     Document Type: Review

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