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Copper Solubility and Speciation of In Situ Contaminated Soils: Effects of Copper Level, pH and Organic Matter

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This study attempts to identify the soil properties controlling the fractionation of copper into various soil pools and determine the influence of pH and metal loading on soil-solution free copper activity (pCu2+). The pCu2+ was determined in 0.01 M CaCl2 soil extracts using a copper ion selective electrode. We analyzed a wide variety of soils: urban, agricultural and forest soils from the Province of Québec, New York State and Denmark. The pCu2+ ranged from 12.21 to 6.18. The relationships among pCu2+, total soil copper, total dissolved copper and soil pH are studied for their variability within and between sites as well as for the whole data set. Regression equations are presented for predicting soluble copper as a function of total soil copper and also for predicting pCu2+ as a function of total soil copper and soil pH.

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  1. Department of Soil, Crop and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Bradfield Hall 908, Ithaca, NY, 14853

    Sébastien Sauvé & Murray B. McBride

  2. Plant, Soil, and Nutrition Laboratory, Tower Road, Ithaca, NY, 14853

    Wendell A. Norvell

  3. Environmental Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University-Macdonald Campus, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec, H9X 3V9, Canada

    William H. Hendershot

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Sauvé, S., McBride, M.B., Norvell, W.A. et al. Copper Solubility and Speciation of In Situ Contaminated Soils: Effects of Copper Level, pH and Organic Matter. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 100, 133–149 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018312109677

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