Comments on "Decontamination of solutions containing Cu(II) and ligands tartrate, glycine and quardol using metallic iron" [J. Hazard. Mater. (175 (2010) 452-459)].
This letter presents ways for an improved discussion of the data provided in a recent article on aqueous removal of Cu(II) complexes from aqueous solutions using metallic iron (Fe(0)) by Gyliene and his co-workers. It is shown that the authors have furnished another brilliant validation of the concept that adsorption onto iron corrosion products and co-precipitation with iron corrosion products are the fundamental mechanisms of dissolved contaminant removal in Fe(0)/H(2)O systems.
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Angewandte Geologie, Universität Göttingen, Goldschmidtstrasse 3, D - 37077 Göttingen, Germany. cnoubac@gwdg.de
D003300:Copper / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003666:Decontamination / Q000379:methods*; D007501:Iron / Q000737:chemistry; D012996:Solutions; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D018508:Water Purification / Q000379:methods*
D012996:Solutions; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D003300:Copper; D007501:Iron