Influence of (Calcium−)Uranyl−Carbonate Complexation on U(VI) Sorption on Ca- and Na-Bentonites

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (13) ◽  
pp. 4896-4901 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Meleshyn ◽  
M. Azeroual ◽  
T. Reeck ◽  
G. Houben ◽  
B. Riebe ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (21) ◽  
pp. 4197-4221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Colmenero ◽  
Jakub Plášil ◽  
Jiří Sejkora

The structure, hydrogen bonding, X-ray diffraction pattern and mechanical properties of six important uranyl carbonate minerals, roubaultite, fontanite, sharpite, widenmannite, grimselite and čejkaite, are determined using first principles methods.


2012 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Plášil ◽  
K. Fejfarová ◽  
R. Skála ◽  
R. Škoda ◽  
N. Meisser ◽  
...  

AbstractTwo crystals of the uranyl carbonate mineral grimselite, ideally K3Na[(UO2)(CO3)3](H2O), from Jáchymov in the Czech Republic were studied by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and electron-probe microanalysis. One crystal has considerably more Na than the ideal chemical composition due to substitution of Na into KO8 polyhedra; the composition of the other crystal is nearer to ideal, and similar to synthetic grimselite. The presence of Na atoms in KO8 polyhedra, which are located in channels in the crystal structure, reduces their volume, and as a result the unit-cell volume also decreases. Structure refinement shows that the formula for the sample with the anomalously high Na content is (K2.43Na0.57)Σ3.00Na[(UO2)(CO3)3](H2O). The unit-cell parameters, refined in space group P2c, are a = 9.2507(1), c = 8.1788(1) Å, V = 606.14(3) Å3 and Z = 2. The crystal structure was refined to R1 = 0.0082 and wR1 = 0.0185 with a GOF = 1.33, based on 626 observed diffraction peaks [Iobs>3σ(I)].


2002 ◽  
Vol 66 (10) ◽  
pp. 1809-1820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Morizet ◽  
R.A. Brooker ◽  
S.C. Kohn

Author(s):  
O.V. Usenko ◽  

Тhe geochemical properties of uranium and thorium and the geological structure of the ore oc currences of the Golovanevskaya and Ingulo-Inguletskaya suture zones are correlated with changes in the composition of mantle melts and fluids in the Archean-Paleoproterozoic. It is shown that the formation of uranium and thorium deposits on the Ukrainian shield became possible in the Proterozoic, when oxidized and acidic melts prevailing in the Archean mantle were replaced by neutral and alkaline water-chloride-potassium. This led to the accumulation of tho rium (to a greater extent) and uranium (to a less extent) in granite magmas of the layer of partial melting of the crust, where they entered as chloride complexes. The ore occurrences of monazite in microcline granites and pegmatites of the Berdichev and Kirovograd complexes formed in the period 2.1-1.9 billion years ago are associated with these processes. The enrichment of crustal centers of melting with uranium occurred most intensively after 2.0 billion years ago (a maximum of 1.8-1.65 billion years ago), when uranyl-carbonate ions entered the crust as a part of mantle carbonate-fluoride-sodium fluids, they were mixed with melts of existing melting centers. A change in the pH of the medium led to the decomposition of complex compounds and the release of the uranyl group, reduction of uranium to U4+ in the presence of graphite and magnetite, and at geochemical barriers with an acid reaction, and the activity of hydroxyl ions ensured the creation of a brannerite structure.


1998 ◽  
Vol 82 (s1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiharu Kato ◽  
Takaumi Kimura ◽  
Zenko Yoshida ◽  
Noriko Nitani

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