Interaction of cesium and strontium with two Indian loams

Abstract

The sorption and desorption of Cs+ and Sr2+ on a silty loam and a silty clay loam from India were carried out at different times of contact and at different temperatures. The activation energy of uptake E, and pseudothermodynamic parameters Ah , Ag; and As were calculated These showed that the silty clay loam immobilised cations more than the silty loam. The cation exchanger in the silty clay loam preferred Cs+ more than that in the silty loam, whereas Sr2+ was preferred more by the silty loam.