Reduced Uranium Phases Produced from Anaerobic Reaction with Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2595-2601

  Tsarev, Sergey ^a   Collins, Richard N ^a   Fahy, Adam ^b   Waite, T David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IRON; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDE MINERALS; REACTION KINETICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URANIUM; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANAEROBIC CORROSION; ANAEROBIC INCUBATION; ANAEROBIC REACTIONS; FORMATION KINETICS; NANOSCALE ZERO-VALENT IRON; SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENT; SURFACE COMPLEX; TIME DEPENDENT;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

CALCIUM; CARBONIC ACID; IRON NANOPARTICLE; URANIUM; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; IRON; NANOPARTICLE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CALCIUM; CARBONATE; CORROSION; IRON; NANOPARTICLE; REACTION KINETICS; TRANSFORMATION; URANIUM;

ANAEROBIC REACTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORROSION; REDUCTION; SOLID; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEAST SQUARE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANAEROBIOSIS; CARBONATES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENVIRONMENT; IRON; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; URANIUM; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84959556709     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b06160     Document Type: Article

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