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Bing Wen1, Weiqing Zhou2, Peng Liu2
1State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Management and Pollution Control, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China, 210042 Nanjing, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Antimony (Sb) isotopes hold immense promise for unraveling Sb biogeochemical cycling in environmental systems. Mn oxides help control the fate of Sb via adsorption reactions, yet the behavior and mechanisms of Sb isotopic fractionation on Mn oxides are poorly understood. In this study, we examine the Sb isotopic fractionation induced by adsorption on β-MnO2 in different experiments (kinetic, isothermal, effect of pH). We observe that adsorption on β-MnO2 surfaces preferentially enriches lighter Sb isotopes through equilibrium fractionation, with Δ123Sbaqueous-adsorbed of 0.55-0.79 ‰. Neither the pH or surface coverage affects the fractionation magnitude. The analysis of extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) demonstrates that the enrichment of light isotope results from the adsorption of inner-sphere complexation on solids. Our finding of this study enhances our comprehension of the impact of β-MnO2 on Sb isotopic fractionation behavior and mechanism and facilitate the applicability of Sb isotopes as effective tracers to elucidate the origins and pathways of Sb contamination in environmental systems, as well as provide a new insight into forecasting the isotopic fractionation of other similar metals adsorbed by manganese oxides.
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