Arsenic binding to organic and inorganic sulfur species during microbial sulfate reduction: A sediment flow-through reactor experiment

Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 285-294

  Couture, Raoul Marie ^a,b,c   Wallschläger, Dirk ^d   Rose, Jérôme ^e   Van Cappellen, Philippe ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELEMENT MOBILITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OUTFLOW; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PYRITE; REDUCTION; REMEDIATION; SEQUESTRATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFATE; SULFIDE; SULFUR; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84883436839     PISSN: 14482517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EN13010     Document Type: Article

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