“…The interaction of NOM and metal oxide particles has been studied by many authors (Tipping, 1981;Davis, 1982;Gu et al, 1996Gu et al, , 1994Evanko and Dzombak, 1999;Filius et al, 2000;Weng et al, 2007). The interaction is complicated, even without the presence of other adsorbing ions that may interact, such as phosphate and calcium.…”