@article {53149,
	title = {On the nature of Athabasca oil sands},
	volume = {114-115},
	year = {2005},
	month = {06/2005},
	pages = {7 pages },
	publisher = {Advances in Colloid and Interface Science },
	abstract = {The existence of a thin aqueous film, separating bitumen (a form of heavy oil) from inorganic solids in Athabasca Oil Sands, is analysed based on {\textquotedblleft}first principles{\textquotedblright}. There is a general consensus in the literature on the hydrophilic character of the solids in oil sands. However, a review of the references cited in support of the solids being encapsulated in thin water envelopes produced a surprising lack of evidence. A theoretical analysis indicates that a water film separating clean, hydrophilic quartz and bitumen is stable under most conditions, and unstable for acidic oil sand ores. The existence of water-wet solids in the Athabasca Oil Sands remains a reasonable yet unproven postulate. It could therefore be dangerous to accept the water-wet solids postulate and then use it to interpret other phenomena.},
	keywords = {oil sand characteristics, Syncrude},
	url = {https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laurier_Schramm/publication/7806595_On_the_nature_of_Athabasca_Oil_Sands/links/54b3fe7c0cf26833efcfeea4.pdf},
	author = {Czarnecki, Jan and Radoev, Boyran and Schramm, Laurier L. and Slavchev, Radomir}
}
