This paper reviews the major sources and transport characteristics of heavy metals in the
hydrological cycle. It is demonstrated that heavy metal releases to the environment have …

The partitioning (or sorption) of trace elements from aqueous solutions onto mineral surfaces
and natural organic matter (NOM) has played a major role in determining the trace element …

Pre-production pellets are an abundant form of plastic waste in the marine environment
whose principal impacts arise from inadvertent ingestion by various organisms when …

The kinetics of As (V) adsorption by ferrihydrite was investigated in coprecipitation and
postsynthesis adsorption experiments conducted in the pH range 7.5–9.0. In coprecipitation …

The sorptive properties of the rare-earth elements (REE) in seawater-pure synthetic mineral
phase systems were investigated through standard batch equilibration experiments. Mineral …

Our understanding of geochemical processes in sediments and soils has been limited by a
lack of simple procedures to measure the kinetics of transfer from solid phase to solution …

Adsorption, desorption, and isotopic exchange experiments have been used to investigate
the kinetics and reversibility of cesium sorption on illite. Trace concentrations of cesium were …

REDOX processes influence the geochemistry of many elements in the ocean, but attributing
the distribution of these elements in the water column and sediments to specific redox …

In solution thermodynamics, and more recently in surface chemistry, it is well established
that relationships can be found between the free energies of formation of aqueous or surface …

A natural illite (illite du Puy) was purified and converted to the homo-ionic Na form. The
conditioned Na–illite was characterised in terms of its mineralogy, chemical inventory, and …