Dispersion stability and electrokinetic properties of intrinsic plutonium colloids: Implications for subsurface transport

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5626-5634

  Abdel Fattah, Amr I ^a,c   Zhou, Dongxu ^b   Boukhalfa, Hakim ^a   Tarimala, Sowmitri ^a   Ware, S Doug ^a   Keller, Arturo A ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOID INTERACTIONS; CRITICAL COAGULATION CONCENTRATION; DISPERSION STABILITY; ELECTROKINETIC PROPERTIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY; SUBSURFACE TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS;

AQUIFERS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; IONIC STRENGTH; PLUTONIUM; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COLLOIDS;

ELECTROLYTE; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; FERRIC OXIDE; GROUND WATER; PLUTONIUM;

AGGREGATION; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSION; ELECTROKINESIS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISPERSION; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; IONIC STRENGTH; ISOELECTRIC POINT; PH; REFRACTION INDEX; SUBSURFACE TRANSPORT; ZETA POTENTIAL;

COLLOIDS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ISOELECTRIC POINT; KINETICS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PLUTONIUM; SUSPENSIONS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84878629453     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304729d     Document Type: Article

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