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Arsenic Adsorption and its Fractions on Aquifer Sediment: Effect of pH, Arsenic Species, and Iron/Manganese Minerals

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Effects of pH, As species, and Fe/Mn minerals on the fractions of adsorbed As in aquifer sediments were evaluated. Kinetic data showed that As adsorption was controlled by diffusion through the external film. Isothermal data of both As(III) and As(V) fitted the Langmuir isotherm well, revealing a monolayer adsorption process. Sequential extraction demonstrated that water-soluble As and non-specifically sorbed As were the major fractions of adsorbed As. Assessing the relationship between the Freundlich K F and the increases in the amounts of As fractions showed that the pH played a key role in weakly adsorbed As, especially water-soluble As. Although inorganic As species converted each other during the adsorption processes, more non-specifically sorbed As was adsorbed in As(V)-treated sediment than in As(III)-treated sediment, showing that the electrostatic selectivity controlled the non-specific adsorption. Additionally, specifically sorbed As and As associated with the amorphous phases were predominated by Fe/Mn minerals, especially Fe(III) (hydr)oxides. These results suggested that pH, As species, and Fe/Mn minerals would regulate the As fractions in aquifer sediments, and therefore control As cycling in aquifer systems.

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The study is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41222020, 41172224, and 41271479), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2652013028), and the Fok Ying-Tung Education Foundation, China (Grant No. 131017), and Equipment Function Development and Technology Innovation projects of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. Y3R30020TS).

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    Jie Ma, Huaming Guo, Fulan Li & Tian Yu

  2. School of Water Resources and Environment, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, People’s Republic of China

    Jie Ma, Huaming Guo, Fulan Li & Tian Yu

  3. Center for Environmental Remediation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, People’s Republic of China

    Jie Ma, Mei Lei, Xiaoyong Zhou, Rongfei Wei, Hanzhi Zhang, Xi Zhang & Yang Wu

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Ma, J., Guo, H., Lei, M. et al. Arsenic Adsorption and its Fractions on Aquifer Sediment: Effect of pH, Arsenic Species, and Iron/Manganese Minerals. Water Air Soil Pollut 226, 260 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-015-2524-1

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