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[Effects of ammonium concentration on Cs-137 fixation rate in soil suspensions]
A A Bulgakov1, A V Konoplev, V E Popov
1Institute of Experimental Meteorology, SPA Typhoon, Obninsk, 249029 Russia. bulgakov@typhoon.obninsk.org
Radiatsionnaia Biologiia, Radioecologiia
|November 27, 2002
Abstract:
Collapse of interlayer spaces of soil clay minerals can by caused by ammonium cation in concentrations as low as 10(-3) mol/l. The collapse leads to substantial decrease in the soil ability to fix 137Cs. This effect is reversible and the soil fixation ability recovers after the ammonium concentration decrease.