ADSORPTION OF LEAD, COPPER, ZINC, COBALT, AND CADMIUM BY SOILS THAT DIFFER IN CATION-EXCHANGE MATERIALS |
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Authors: | ALY ABD-ELFATTAH KOJI WADA |
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Affiliation: | (Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University 46, Fukuoka 812, Japan) |
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Abstract: | The adsorption of Zn2+, Pb2+, Cu2+, Co2+, and Cd2+ (M2+) by soils was measured at concentrations ranging from 10-7 to 10-2 M in 10-3 to 10-2 M CaCI2. Exchange between Ca2+ and M2+, and solubility products [M2+][OH?]2 indicate that M2+ is not precipitated as hydroxide but is adsorbed on cation-exchange sites. The proportion of selective adsorption sites with specified values of the selectivity coefficient calculated using Ca as reference ion, increased in the order montmorillonite < humus, kaolinite, < allophane. imogolite < halloysite, iron oxides. Raising the soil pH by Ca-saturation increased both the amount and affinity of adsorption. Selectivity of adsorption increased in the order Mg, Ca < Cd, Co < Zn < Cu, Pb, and the selectivity coefficient varied from < 1 to > 10 000. The formation of the coordination complexes of heavy metal with deprotonoted OH and COOH groups as ligands is suggested as a possible mechanism of selective adsorption. |
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