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‘Climate Healing Stones’: Common Minerals Offer Substantial Climate Change Mitigation Potential
This review proposes that mineral-based greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation could be developed into a substantial climate change abatement tool. This...
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Minerals and Wastes, an Overlooked Connection
A common view is that wastes are very different from natural objects. However minerals are ubiquitous in industrial, construction and demolition and...
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Recent advances in clay minerals for groundwater pollution control and remediation
Clay minerals are abundant on Earth and have been crucial to the advancement of human civilization. The ability of clay minerals to absorb chemicals...
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Minerals and Waste
In the field of waste disposal, recovery, and recycling, industrial residues from ceramic and mining activities are just an assemblage of minerals....
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Nanomechanical behavior of coal with heterogeneous minerals and pores using nanoindentation
The coal’s mechanical properties have a significant influence on mining safety and the mine environment. Preparing a standard sample and conducting...
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Interactions between organic matter and alkaline minerals in bauxite residue: implication for soil restoration
Ecological restoration of bauxite residue has received extensive attention, and organic matter plays a crucial role in the soil formation process of...
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Hierarchical Porous Biochar Prepared from Peanut Shell Through Minerals Modification for Highly Efficient Tetracycline Removal
Comparison of different mineral element modifications on biochars has been rarely investigated, and their adsorption behavior toward pollutants is...
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Sorption and reduction of hexavalent uranium by natural and modified silicate minerals: A review
In the context of rising anthropogenic activities and world conflicts, there is an urgent need for energy supply, such as nuclear power from uranium...
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The Effect of Removing Hard-to-Grind Minerals from Steel Slag on Efficient Grinding and Hydration Activity
Grinding is usually used to increase the specific surface area of steel slag to improve its activity. However, due to the large amount of...
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A comparative study on the Cs adsorption/desorption and structural changes in different clay minerals
We investigated the structural changes in clay minerals after Cs adsorption and understood their low desorption efficiency using an ion-exchanger. We...
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Clay minerals as paleo-climate proxy in Quaternary Dun sediments, NW Himalaya, India
PurposeClay mineral assemblages are widely used for deciphering paleoclimatic information, where diagenetic and detrital clays provide different...
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The important role of the interaction between manganese minerals and metals in environmental remediation: a review
With illegal discharge of wastewater containing inorganic and organic pollutants, combined pollution is common and needs urgent attention....
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Geographical pattern of minerals and its association with health disparities in the USA
This study aimed to determine the common latent patterns of geographical distribution of health-related minerals across the USA and to evaluate the...
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Nanoparticulate Iron Oxide Minerals for Arsenic Removal from Contaminated Water
Groundwater contamination with arsenic (As) is a global environmental and human health problem affecting over 200 million people worldwide, with low...
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Adsorption of Anionic Antibiotics by CTAB Modified Natural Clay Minerals
This chapter described the successful preparation of modified zeolite, kaolinite, montmorillonite and illite by CTAB organic reagents and...
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New insights into persulfate decomposition by soil minerals: radical and non-radical pathways
Persulfate (PS)-based in situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) has been widely used for pollutant remediation in soil and groundwater. However, the...
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Adsorption of the hydrophobic organic pollutant hexachlorobenzene to phyllosilicate minerals
Hexachlorobenzene (HCB), a representative of hydrophobic organic chemicals (HOC), belongs to the group of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that...
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Interaction of exopolysaccharide with clay minerals and their effects on U(VI) adsorption
PurposeThe modification of clay minerals by exopolysaccharides (EPS) may significantly increase their adsorption capacity for heavy metals....
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A Review of Modified Clay Minerals for Thallium Absorption from Aqueous Environment: Preparation, Application, and Mechanism
Thallium is a highly toxic heavy metal element that can penetrate the human skin and still cause harm to the humans and the environment at low...
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Retention of soil organic matter by occlusion within soil minerals
The stabilization of soil organic matter is crucial for global carbon cycling processes as soil stores large amounts of organic carbon. The occlusion...
