Ground water colloid properties from the Bangombé system

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 130-143

  Degueldre, Claude ^a,b   Laaksoharju, Marcus ^c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c Geopoint   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; CALCIUM; GROUNDWATER; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; NEODYMIUM; PRASEODYMIUM; SCANDIUM; SODIUM; URANIUM;

COLLOID CONCENTRATION; COLLOID PROPERTIES; DISTRIBUTION RATIO; ELEMENT ASSOCIATIONS; SILICA PARTICLES; SURFACE COMPLEXATION MODELING; TRIVALENT ELEMENTS; URANIUM TRANSPORTS;

COLLOIDS;

BOREHOLE; COLLOID; COMPLEXATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FERRIHYDRITE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; PH; RADIONUCLIDE; RESUSPENSION; SILICA; SORPTION; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM;

BANGOMBE; GABON; HAUT OGOOUE;

EID: 84898941633     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: 18729134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2014.03.004     Document Type: Article

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