Aluminium and iron salts are widely used as coagulants in water and wastewater treatment
and in some other applications. They are effective in removing a broad range of impurities …

This review discusses the recent trends in the research over the last 30 years to use clay
minerals in natural and modified forms for removing different toxic organic/inorganic …

For thousands of years, soil has been the repository of society's wastes. The excavation of
middens, which has provided archaeologists with valuable information on the daily life of …

One of the first subjects introduced to students of environmental chemistry is the aqueous
chemistry of aluminum. This metal is the third most abundant element in the shallow Earth …

This chapter the summarizes information on the hydrolysis of the mononuclear aqueous
aluminum ion and on the stability of mononuclear ion pairs or complexes of aluminum with …

The acid-base properties of the polynuclear Al 13 complex have been studied by
alkalimetric titration using three different experimental methods. While the positive charge of …

Citrate occurs at about 0.1 mM in blood plasma and is the most likely small molecule plasma
binder of both Al 3+ and Fe 3+. This paper assesses published stability constants for citrate …

This study reports 184 new measurements of the solubility of gibbsite at 50° C and 0.1 molal
ionic strength in NaCl solutions of acetate, bistris, and tris buffers with hydrogen ion …

As a detrimental element, aluminium poses a threat to human health at two levels of
contamination:(i) environmental (dietary) levels, due mainly to the release of natural stores …

The hydrolysis equilibria of Fe 3+ and Al 3+ play important roles in geology and biology.
While the four successive deprotonations from the aquo Fe 3+ are spaced at about two pH …