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Study of Elemental Composition and Properties of Volcanic Ash and Urban Dust Nanoparticles

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There is still a notable gap in the study of the chemical composition and properties of natural nanoparticles, which play a crucial role in biogeochemical cycles. This paper summarizes the methodology and recent results of isolation, study and quantitative elemental analysis of volcanic ash and urban dust nanoparticles. A combination of sedimentation, membrane filtration and field-flow fractionation in a rotating coiled column was used to isolate nanoparticles. The size and morphology of nanoparticles were characterized using complementary light scattering and scanning electron microscopy techniques. The content of major and trace elements in the initial samples and fractions of nanoparticles was determined by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission and mass spectrometry. It has been determined that the concentration of Cu, Zn, Ag, Cd, Sn, Sb, Hg, Pb, Tl, Bi in nanoparticles of Moscow dust may be tens and even hundreds of times higher, than in the initial polydisperse samples. The ashes from volcanoes Puyehue (Chile), Tolbachik, and Klyuchevskoy (Kamchatka, Russia) show that concentrations of toxic metals and metalloids in ash nanoparticles are also much higher than their bulk concentrations. The enrichment factors of nanoparticles with such elements as Ni, Cu, As, Se, Ag, Cd, Sn, Te, Hg, Tl, Pb, and Bi are in the range from 10 to 500. Single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry reveals that Ni, Zn, Tl, As and Hg in Tolbachik ash nanoparticles are not adsorbed on the particle surface but are contained only as individual nanophases (most likely oxides). Long-term aggregation stability of natural nanoparticles is shown, which confirms their important role in the transport of elements in aqueous media.

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Fedotov, P.S., Ermolin, M.S., Ivaneev, A.I. (2023). Study of Elemental Composition and Properties of Volcanic Ash and Urban Dust Nanoparticles. In: Kolotov, V.P., Bezaeva, N.S. (eds) Advances in Geochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09883-3_5

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