Sorption of Anions Important because: • Several nutrients and agricultural chemicals are negatively charged. – Nitrate, phosphate, sulfate, selenate,… • Tropical, acidic and highly weathered soils exhibit notable anion sorption. – (Particularly in soils rich in variable charged particle surfaces such as Fe, Al, and Mn oxides or allophane)
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Sorption of Anions Important because: Several nutrients and agricultural chemicals are negatively charged. –Nitrate, phosphate, sulfate, selenate,… Tropical,
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Sorption of Anions
Important because:• Several nutrients and agricultural
chemicals are negatively charged.– Nitrate, phosphate, sulfate, selenate,…
– (Particularly in soils rich in variable charged particle surfaces such as Fe, Al, and Mn oxides or allophane)
Mechanisms
• Outer-sphere complexation and diffuse ion swarm (pH dependent)
S-OH(s) + H+(aq) SOH2
+
SOH2+ + A-
(aq) SOH2A(s)
– Where S is the surface or sorbent
– Important for NO3-, Cl-, ClO4
-, ~SO4-2, SeO4
-2 (selenate)
– More prevalent on oxide and silicate edges than humus fraction
Anion Exchange
• As pH increases up to the pKa, adsorption increases.
• Above the pKa, adsorption decreases.
H4SiO4 H+ + H3SiO4- pKa ~ 9.5
HF H+ + F- pKa ~ 4• At typical conditions for most soils, anion
sorption is inversely related with pH: – AEC increases as soil pH decreases.
• Ion exchange or outer-sphere sorption is greatest in soils dominated by the sesquioxides and allophane
Inner-sphere complexation • ligand exchange (a.k.a. anion penetration or
chemisorption)SOH2
+ + A- SA(s) + H2O(l)
• Important for phosphate, borate, arsenate, arsenite, silicate, selenite, molybdate
• O or OH ions on mineral edges can be replaced by anions like phosphate and F- that can enter into sixfold coordination with Al+3 or Fe+3 in octahedra
• Borate, B(OH)4-, can bond to humus
-
Surface complex structure
• Monodentate – metal is bonded to only one oxygen
• Bidentate – metal is bonded to two oxygens
• Mononuclear – sorbed metal is associated with one metal on sorbent surface
• Binuclear – sorbed metal is bonded to two sorbent metals
Effect of pH on Cd adsorption onto kaolinite in single- (Cd concentration 133.33 µM) and multi-element (Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn concentration 33.33 µM each i.e. total metal concentration 133.33 µM) systems.
Like and SO the MoO anion is strongly adsorbed by Fe and Al oxides, which markedly increase at low pH.
PZC pH at which the surface has net charge of zero: p = 01. When pH < PZC the particle surface is positively charged2. When pH > PZC the particle surface is negatively charged3. At PZC, settling of flocs occurs – important in aggregation and retention of ions during irrigation, leaching, etc.