“…Hence, they are used as UOH scavengers to inhibit UOH-dominated degradation, and serve as important indicators of UOH (Gonzalez-Olmos et al, 2011;Xu and Wang, 2012a;Zelmanov and Semiat, 2008). I − acts as efficient scavenger of surface-bound UOH (Xu and Wang, 2011). The scavenging of UOH by Cl − is significant only at low pH (Grebel et al, 2010) (e.g., pH < 2 (Machulek et al, 2006)), while carbonate scavenging of UOH increases with pH (Grebel et al, 2010).…”