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Influence of the potassium and ammonium ion concentrations on the selective sorption of 137Cs by illite and clinoptilolite

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It is suggested to describe the dependence of K ‒1d of 137Cs on the potassium ion concentration for clinoptilolite and illite with a quasi-Langmuir equation in which the maximal radiocesium interception potential relative to potassium, RIP(K)max, is used instead of the maximal sorption capacity of the sorbent. For describing the dependence of the selective sorption of 137Cs on the concentration of ammonium ions, an approximation equation consisting of two normalized quasi-Langmuir equations is suggested, with one equation describing the 137Cs sorption on low-affinity sorption centers for concentrations exceeding 3 mM and the other equation describing the sorption on high-affinity centers for ammonium concentrations of up to 3 mM.

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Original Russian Text © V.E. Popov, N.S. Il’icheva, I.A. Stepina, K.M. Maslova, 2011, published in Radiokhimiya, 2011, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 86–90.

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Popov, V.E., Il’icheva, N.S., Stepina, I.A. et al. Influence of the potassium and ammonium ion concentrations on the selective sorption of 137Cs by illite and clinoptilolite. Radiochemistry 53, 97–102 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1066362211010139

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Keywords

  • cesium-137
  • sorption
  • illite
  • clinoptilolite