Uranium transport in acidic brines under reducing conditions

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Timofeev, Alexander ^a   Migdisov, Artaches A ^b   Williams Jones, Anthony E ^a   Roback, Robert ^b   Nelson, Andrew T ^c   Xu, Hongwu ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URANIUM;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BRINE; ELECTRICITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ORE DEPOSIT; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; URANIUM;

ACIDITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; ELECTRICITY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; SALINITY;

EID: 85045553302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03564-7     Document Type: Article

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