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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 13, Pages 2898-2904Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es025749j
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The mechanisms of the uranium(VI) sorption on schwertmannite and goethite in acid sulfate-rich solutions were studied by Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy. The samples were prepared under N-2 atmosphere and initial uranium(VI) concentrations of 1 x 10(-5) (pH 6.5) to 5 x 10(-5) M (pH 4.2). The ionic strength was adjusted using 0.01 M Na2SO4 or 0.01 M NaClO4, respectively. The EXAFS structural parameters for uranium(VI) sorbed on goethite in sulfate-rich, acid and near-neutral solutions indicate that uranium(VI) forms an inner-sphere, mononuclear, bidentate surface complex. This complex is characterized by a uranium-ferric-iron distance of approximately 3.45 Angstrom. Uranium(VI) sorbed onto schwertmannite in acid and sulfate-rich solution is coordinated to one or two sulfate molecules with a uranium-sulfur distance of 3.67 Angstrom. The EXAFS results indicate formation of binuclear, bidentate surface complexes and partly of mononuclear, monodentate surface complexes coordinated to the structural sulfate of schwertmannite. The formation of ternary uranium(VI)-sulfate surface complexes could not be excluded because of the uncertainty in assigning the sulfate either to the bulk structure or to adsorption reactions. The uranium(VI) adsorption onto schwertmannite in Perchlorate solution occurs predominantly as a mononuclear, bidentate complexation with ferric iron due to the release of sulfate from the substrate.
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