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SCIENCE
Volume 297, Issue 5590, Pages 2245-2247Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1076505
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About 240,000 square kilometers of Earths surface is disrupted by mining, which creates watersheds that are polluted by acidity, aluminum, and heavy metals. Mixing of acidic effluent from old mines and acidic soils into waters with a higher pH causes precipitation of amorphous aluminum oxyhydroxide flocs that move in streams as suspended solids and transport adsorbed contaminants. On the basis of samples from nine streams, we show that these flocs probably form from aggregation of the epsilon-Keggin polyoxocation AlO4Al12(OH)(24)(H2O)(12)(7+)(aq)(Al-13), because all of the flocs contain distinct Al(O)(4) centers similar to that of the Al-13 nanocluster.
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