ASCE will be sunsetting the Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) in the coming months. We encourage you to start using the ASCE Library to perform content searches. In the ASCE Library, you can save your search results as well as receive email content alerts when new content relevant to your area of interest is published. Try it out today at https://ascelibrary.org.

 

Physical and Chemical Behavior of Chrysotile Asbestos Particles in Natural Waters

by Roger C. Bales, Univ of Arizona, Dep of Hydrology, & Water Resources, Tucson, AZ, USA,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Hydraulics and Hydrology in the Small Computer Age

Abstract:

The paper reports on research to develop a better understanding of the chemical behavior and the influence of surface chemistry on the physical behavior of chrysotile asbestos and other colloidal particles in natural waters and in water-treatment processes. The relation between dissolution, adsorption and surface-charge development is studied experimentally. Surface charge is interpreted in terms of a coordination-chemical model of adsorption at a hydrous-oxide surface.

Subject Headings: Water treatment | Asbestos | Particles | Chemical processes | Adsorption | Colloids | Chemistry

Services: Buy this book/Buy this article

 

Return to search