The sorption of 16 ionizable organic compounds (IOCs) to an estuarine sediment was measured in synthetic estuarine water as a function of IOC concentration (1-100 microM) at fixed ionic strength (0.4 M), pH (7.6), and sediment concentration (0.018 g sediment kg(-1) suspension). Of the 16 IOCs, 11 were naphthoic acids and five were quinoline compounds. The linear sorption distribution coefficien...

The interaction of sulfonamide antimicrobial agents with smectite clay minerals and humic acid (HA)-clay complexes was investigated in batch experiments to assess the influence of adsorbed humic acid on sulfonamide sorption. Soil HA-clay complexes were produced at HA:clay ratios of 1:5, 1:50, and 1:100 (w/w). Vibrational and electronic spectroscopy indicated the preferential adsorption of polar...

The transport and fate of many contaminants in subsurface systems can be influenced by several rate-limited processes, such as rate-limited sorption, diffusional mass transfer, and transformation reactions. Identification of the controlling process in such systems is often difficult, and is confounded by the possible influence of additional factors such as nonlinear or hysteretic sorption. We p...

This article compares the sorption behaviour of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol, 2,3,4,6-tetrachlorophenol, pentachlorophenol, chlorotriazine atrazine, methylthiotriazine ametryn, methoxytriazine atratone, hydroxyatrazine, and didelakylated atrazine in a topsoil and an aquifer sediment before and after removal of sorbent organic matter and in humic acid. Freundlich isotherm coefficients Kf and 1/n and fr...

The ability to predict rates of contaminant sorption and desorption in the environment is essential in order to determine contaminant bioavailability, predict contaminant fate and transport, and assess risk. In this paper, we present a new method to determine sorption-desorption time scales from the temporal moments of batch experimental data. Here, the term time scale has a precise meaning: Ti...

A recently developed model for ρ-meson propagation in dense hadronic matter is applied to total photoabsorption cross sections in γ-proton and γ-nucleus reactions. Within the vector dominance model the photon coupling to the virtual pion cloud of the nucleon, two-body meson-exchange currents, as well as γ-nucleon resonances are included. Whereas the γp reaction is determined by the low-density ...

Heavy metals are toxic soil pollutants that are retarded in soils by sorption at the solid phase. At a small scale (of a soil sample), the sorption process can be observed and quantified using sorption isotherms. However, most environmental problems have to be treated and solved at large scales (e.g., a field scale). At the field scale, heavy metal sorption isotherms are commonly highly variabl...

The sorption of VOCs by different building materials can significantly affect VOC concentrations in indoor environments. In this paper, a new model has been developed for simulating VOC sorption and desorption rates of homogeneous building materials with constant diffusion coefficients and material-air partition coefficients. The model analytically solves the VOC sorption rate at the material-a...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Structural integrity and dimensional stability are the key factors that determine the clinical success and durability of luting cements in the oral cavity. Sorption and solubility of self-adhesive resin luting cements in food-simulating solutions has not been studied sufficiently. PURPOSE This study aimed to compare the sorption and solubility of 2 conventional and 2 ...

Simulations of H2 sorption were performed in PCN-14, a metal-organic framework (MOF) that consists of Cu(2+) ions coordinated to 5,5'-(9,10-anthracenediyl)diisophthalate (adip) linkers. This MOF displays an excess H2 uptake of 2.70 wt% at 77 K and 1.0 atm and an initial H2Qst value of 8.6 kJ mol(-1) according to previous experimental measurements. The experimental H2 sorption isotherms and Qst ...