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Solute transport with multiple equilibrium-controlled or kinetically controlled chemical reactions

A new approach is applied to the problem of modeling solute transport accompanied by many chemical reactions. The approach, based on concepts of the concentration space and its stoichiometric subspaces, uses elements of the subspaces as primary dependent variables. It is shown that the resulting model equations are compact in form, isolate the chemical reaction expressions from flow expressions, a
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John C. Friedly, Jacob Rubin

Associations between benthic flora and diel changes in dissolved arsenic, phosphorus, and related physico-chemical parameters

Diel relationships between physical and chemical parameters and biomass were examined along a 57-km reach of Whitewood Creek, South Dakota, between 29 August and 2 September 1988. A time lag of ∼3-6 h for fluctuations in soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP) concentrations (ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 μM at the downstream sites) relative to dissolved arsenic (ranging from 0.3 to 1.2 μM as arsenate (pentav
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James S. Kuwabara

Reply to Dr. Stoesselfs comment on “Reaction paths and equilibrium end-points in solid-solution aqueous-solution systems”

In reply to the Critical Comment of R. K. Stoessell (this issue), limiting activity coefficients of bromide in halite (γNaBr) have been calculated by least-squares fitting of Simons et al.'s (1952) bromide distribution coefficient data for the Na(Cl,Br)-NaOH-H2O system at 35°C. Regular and subregular solidsolution model fits give γNaBr = 7.4 and γNaBr = 8.8, respectively. The Br contents of halite
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Pierre D. Glynn, Eric J. Reardon, Niel Plummer, Eurybiades Busenberg

Fate of alkylbenzenesulfonates and dialkyltetralinsulfonates in sewage contaminated ground water

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Jennifer A. Field, Larry B. Barber, E. Michael Thurman, Billy L. Moore, David L. Lawrence, David A. Peake

Solute transport with multisegment, equilibrium-controlled, classical reactions: Problem solvability and feed forward method's applicability for complex segments of at most binary participants

The feed forward (FF) method derives efficient operational equations for simulating transport of reacting solutes. It has been shown to be applicable in the presence of networks with any number of homogeneous and/or heterogeneous, classical reaction segments that consist of three, at most binary participants. Using a sequential (network type after network type) exploration approach and, independen
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Jacob Rubin

A spatial length scale analysis of turbulent temperature and velocity fluctuations within and above an orchard canopy

Turbulent flow within and above an almond orchard was measured with three-dimensional wind sensors and fine-wire thermocouple sensors arranged in a horizontal array. The data showed organized turbulent structures as indicated by coherent asymmetric ramp patterns in the time series traces across the sensor array. Space-time correlation analysis indicated that velocity and temperature fluctuations w
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Y.S. Wang, D.R. Miller, D.E. Anderson, R.M. Cionco, J.D. Lin

Acoustic waveform logging: Advances in theory and application

Full-waveform acoustic logging has made significant advances in both theory and application in recent years, and these advances have greatly increased the capability of log analysts to measure the physical properties of formations. Advances in theory provide the analytical tools required to understand the properties of measured seismic waves, and to relate those properties to such quantities as sh
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F.L. Paillet, C.H. Cheng, W.D. Pennington

Reply to comment on "The surface area of soil organic matter"

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Cary T. Chiou, Jiunn Fwu Lee, Stephen A. Boyd

Natural toxic waters of Poas Volcano, Costa Rica

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Susan L. Brantley, Gary L. Rowe, Leonard F. Konikow, Ward E. Sanford