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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 36, Issue 20, Pages 4253-4261Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es025660d
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While alum amendments have shown to be effective in lowering water-soluble phosphate levels in poultry litter, the mechanism by which this occurs is not fully known. To determine the solid-state speciation of phosphate in litter samples, experiments were conducted with X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy. XANES analysis reveals that in unamended samples, phosphate is present as weakly bound inorganic as well as some organic phosphate, with some dicalcium phosphate-type calcium phosphates also present. When alum is applied in the houses, XANES results suggest that it precipitates out as amorphous. Al(OH)(3) and then reacts with phosphate via an adsorption mechanism. No evidence was found of aluminum phosphate precipitation in any samples.
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