Uranium release from sediment to groundwater: Influence of water chemistry and insights into release mechanisms

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 164, Issue , 2014, Pages 72-87

  Alam, Md Samrat ^a   Cheng, Tao ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Desorption; Groundwater contamination; Mineral dissolution; Sediment; Uranium release

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DESORPTION; DISSOLUTION; EXTRACTION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SILICATE MINERALS; SOIL MOISTURE; URANIUM;

GEOCHEMICAL REACTION; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; INTERACTIVE PROCESS; LEACHING EXPERIMENTS; MINERAL DISSOLUTION; REDUCTIVE PRECIPITATION; SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENT; UNCONTAMINATED SOILS;

HYDROCHEMISTRY;

BICARBONATE; CITRIC ACID; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; GROUND WATER; HYDROXIDE; MANGANESE HYDROXIDE; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; SILICATE; SOIL WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM; MINERAL; WATER POLLUTANT;

AQUIFER; DESORPTION; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IRON HYDROXIDE; MANGANESE OXIDE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SILICATE MINERAL; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL WATER; URANIUM; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DESORPTION; DISSOLUTION; LEACHING; LIMIT OF DETECTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PH; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER CONTAMINATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ADSORPTION; ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADSORPTION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; KINETICS; MINERALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84903206840     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: 18736009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2014.06.001     Document Type: Article

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