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Transport of reacting solutes in porous media: Relation between mathematical nature of problem formulation and chemical nature of reactions Transport of reacting solutes in porous media: Relation between mathematical nature of problem formulation and chemical nature of reactions

Examples involving six broad reaction classes show that the nature of transport-affecting chemistry may have a profound effect on the mathematical character of solute transport problem formulation. Substantive mathematical diversity among such formulations is brought about principally by reaction properties that determine whether (1) the reaction can be regarded as being controlled by...
Authors
Jacob Rubin

Complexation of copper by aquatic humic substances from different environments Complexation of copper by aquatic humic substances from different environments

The copper-complexing properties of aquatic humic substances isolated from eighteen different environments were characterized by potentiometric titration, using a cupric ion selective electrode. Potentiometric data were analyzed using FITEQL, a computer program for the determination of chemical equilibrium constants from experimental data. All the aquatic humic substances could be...
Authors
Diane M. McKnight, Gerald L. Feder, E. Michael Thurman, Robert L. Wershaw

Terpenoid marker compounds derived from biogenic precursors in volcanic ash from Mount St. Helens, Washington Terpenoid marker compounds derived from biogenic precursors in volcanic ash from Mount St. Helens, Washington

A volcanic-ash sample obtained after the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington, was analyzed for cyclic terpenoid organic compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using capillary gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-computer techniques. Various tricyclic diterpenoid acids and hydrocarbons were identified including dehydroabietic acid, dehydroabietin, dehydroabietane...
Authors
W. E. Pereira, Colleen E. Rostad

Simulation of solute transport in a mountain pool-and-riffle stream: A transient storage model Simulation of solute transport in a mountain pool-and-riffle stream: A transient storage model

The physical characteristics of mountain streams differ from the uniform and conceptually well- defined open channels for which the analysis of solute transport has been oriented in the past and is now well understood. These physical conditions significantly influence solute transport behavior, as demonstrated by a transient storage model simulation of solute transport in a very small (0...
Authors
Kenneth E. Bencala, Roy A. Walters

Variable tolerance to copper in two species from San Francisco Bay Variable tolerance to copper in two species from San Francisco Bay

In static toxicity experiments, tolerance to soluble Cu of the bivalve, Macoma balthica, and the copepod, Acartia clausi, varied substantially among populations sampled within San Francisco Bay. Intraspecific tolerance differed ten-fold or more for both species over relatively small distances, suggesting geographical isolation of populations is not a prerequisite for the development of
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Samuel N. Luoma, D.J. Cain, K. Ho, A. Hutchinson

Nonequilibrium models for predicting forms of precipitated manganese oxides Nonequilibrium models for predicting forms of precipitated manganese oxides

Manganese oxides precipitated by bubbling air through 0.01 molar solutions of MnCl2, Mn(NO3)2, MnSO4, or Mn(ClO4)2 at a constantly maintained pH of 8.5 to 9.5 at temperatures of 25°C or higher consisted mainly of hausmannite, Mn3O4. At temperatures near 0°C, but with other conditions the same, the product is feitknechtite, βMnOOH, except that if the initial solution is MnSO4 and the...
Authors
J.D. Hem, Carol J. Lind

Simulation of solute transport in a mountain pool-and-riffle stream with a kinetic mass transfer model for sorption Simulation of solute transport in a mountain pool-and-riffle stream with a kinetic mass transfer model for sorption

In natural channels there are often long periods of low flow during which solutes have repeated opportunity for contact with relatively immobile bed materials. Such conditions can exist in very small pool-and-riffle mountain streams. If a solute can sorb onto bed materials, then both hydrodynamic and chemical processes control solute transport. A simulation of these processes is...
Authors
Kenneth E. Bencala

Kinetic analysis of strontium and potassium sorption onto sands and gravels in a natural channel Kinetic analysis of strontium and potassium sorption onto sands and gravels in a natural channel

A kinetic, first-order mass transfer model was used to describe the sorption of strontium onto sand- and gravel-sized streambed sediments. Rate parameters, empirically determined for strontium, allowed for the prediction of potassium sorption with moderate success. The model parameters varied significantly with particle size. The sorption data were collected during an experimental...
Authors
Kenneth E. Bencala, Alan P. Jackman, Vance C. Kennedy, Ronald J. Avanzino, Gary W. Zellweger
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