Arsenic adsorption onto minerals: Connecting experimental observations with density functional theory calculations

Minerals

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 208-240

  Watts, Heath D ^a   Tribe, Lorena ^b   Kubicki, James D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Arsenic; As Fe bond distances; Computational chemistry; Density functional theory (DFT); Kinetics; Planewave DFT; Reaction rates; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905378116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2075163X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/min4020208     Document Type: Article

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