Selective uptake of rare earth elements and other cations in sector-zoned natural calcite as analogues for trivalent actinide behavior

Baumeister, Ferdinand; Kutzschbach, Martin; Klinkenberg, Martina; Brandt, Felix; Neumann, Thomas

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Selective uptake of rare earth elements and other cations in sector-zoned natural calcite as analogues for trivalent actinide behavior

Ferdinand Baumeister, Martin Kutzschbach, Martina Klinkenberg, Felix Brandt, and Thomas Neumann

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