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In physical chemistry, the world is divided in two parts: the system, containing the portion of the world of particular interest, and the surroundings, comprising the region outside the system (Atkins and de Paula 2002). A geochemical system is an open system that may be studied within two basic frameworks
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Berkowitz, B., Dror, I., Yaron, B. (2014). Selected Geochemical Processes. In: Contaminant Geochemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54777-5_2
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