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A novel vertical attenuated total reflectance photochemical flow-through reaction cell for Fourier transform infrared
Michael J Borda1, Daniel R Strongin, Martin A Schoonen
1Department of Geosciences, ESS Building, The State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2100, USA. mikc@pbisotopes.ess.sunysb.edu
Abstract:
A unique photochemical cell design and two experiments are presented, which illustrate the usefulness of flow-through attenuated total reflectance (ATR) Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy as a technique for investigating photochemical reactions at the mineral-water interface. The kinetics of the photolysis reaction of potassium oxalate (K(2)C(2)O(4)) in a ferric iron solution and oxalate adsorbed onto goethite (alpha-FeOOH) were investigated to show the capabilities of the cell. Due to complicated kinetics, the adsorption experiment demonstrates not only the types of complex problems, that may exist at the mineral-water interface, but also the ability for this novel cell design to address them.
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