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Actinide pollutants and the oxygen/water couple

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The redox potential of environmental water influences the speciation of pollutants like plutonium. This potential cannot be reliably predicted from diagrams for irreversible couples like oxygen/water.

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Silver, G.L. Actinide pollutants and the oxygen/water couple. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Letters 164, 153–156 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02163767

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