Effects of Biostabilization on Engineering Properties of Geomaterials

Table 1

Element abundance analyses with EDS for the 4 labelled substances in Figure 4 and the untreated silica sand.

Element	Untreated silica sand		Label 1		Label 2		Label 3		Label 4
	Atomic %	Weight %	Atomic %	Weight %	Atomic %	Weight %	Atomic %	Weight %	Atomic %	Weight %
O	57.39	43.43	53.19	35.35	57.26	37.72	52.69	35.20	52.13	36.86
Na			0.43	0.41	0.20	0.19	0.75	0.72	0.09	0.09
Al	0.47	0.60	0.18	0.20	0.08	0.09	0.27	0.30	0.19	0.23
Si	42.14	55.98	15.98	18.65	11.92	13.78	18.95	22.22	37.95	47.10
P			0.04	0.05	0.09	0.11	0.01	0.01
S			1.49	1.99	2.56	3.38	10.32	13.81	1.58	2.25
Cl			22.84	33.64	6.77	9.88	3.65	5.40	3.75	5.88
K			0.42	0.68	0.34	0.54	1.04	1.69	0.39	0.67
Ca			5.43	9.04	20.79	34.31	12.34	20.65	3.92	6.93
Total	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00