Computer Science
Scientific paper
Jul 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006gecoa..70.3231k&link_type=abstract
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 70, Issue 13, p. 3231-3238.
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Boron is an important micronutrient for plants but is toxic at high pore solution concentrations. Its mobility and migration in many geochemical environments is often controlled by reactions with mineral surfaces, and thus its speciation on mineral surfaces has been extensively investigated. Most previous studies have used IR spectroscopy to characterize the surface B-environments. We present here the first 11B MAS NMR study of surface sorbed boron on minerals. The results demonstrate the capability of this method to effectively probe the local structure of the sorption sites at total B-concentrations in the samples as small as 0.03 wt% and to provide insight into the mechanisms of sorption. Signal is readily resolved for both trigonal (B(3)) and tetrahedral (B(4)) boron exchanged onto boehmite, silica gel and illite, and the resonances are readily assigned on the basis of chemical shift and quadrupole coupling constant. Boron surface densities on illite are approximately order of magnitude greater than on silica gel or boehmite. For boehmite, both B(3) and B(4) occur dominantly as inner-sphere complexes formed by ligand exchange reaction with surface aluminol sites. The B(3)/[B(3) + B(4)] ratio of approximately 0.87 does not vary significantly with pH from 3 to 11, with solution B-concentration, or with washing. The occurrence of B(3) and B(4) as inner-sphere complexes is in agreement with previous suggestions from IR studies of B-sorption on iron hydroxide, allophone, kaolinite, and hydrous ferric oxide. For silica gel, B(3) and B(4) occur principally as outer-sphere complexes or as residual precipitate from un-removed solution. The B(3)/B(4) ratio decreases with increasing pH paralleling the speciation in solution, but the relative abundance of B(4) is greater than in solution. A small fraction of the B(4) occurs as inner-sphere complexes with B(4) O Si linkages formed by ligand exchange reaction with silanol sites. For illite, surface boron occurs as outer-sphere B(3) and B(4), as for silica gel, and as inner-sphere B(3) and B(4), as for boehmite. Outer-sphere B(3) and B(4) are dominant at pH 3 and 5, whereas inner-sphere B(3) and B(4) are dominant at pH 9 and 11. The inner-sphere complexes probably form dominantly by ligand exchange reactions involving sites on the broken edges of illite layers.
James Kirkpatrick R.
Kim Yeongkyoo
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