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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 47, Issue 11, Pages 5652-5659Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es3049724
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- Fonds de recherche du Quebec-Nature et technologies (FRQNT)
- Canada Excellence Research Chair Program
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Sorption to iron (Fe) minerals determines the fate of the toxic metalloid arsenic (As) in many subsurface environments. Recently, thiolated As species have been shown to dominate aqueous As speciation under, a range of environmentally relevant conditions, thus highlighting the need for a quantitative understanding of their sorption behavior. We conducted batch experiments to measure the time-dependent sorption of two S-substituted arsenate species, mono- and tetrathioarsenate, and compared it to the sorption of arsenite and arsenate, in suspensions Containing 2-line ferrihydrite, goethite, mackinawite, or pyrite. All four As species strongly sorbed to ferrihydrite. For the other sorbents, binding of the thiolated As species was generally lower compared to arsenate and arsenite, with the exception of the near instantaneous and complete sorption, of monothioarsenate to pyrite. Analysis of the X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) spectra of sorbed complexes implied that monothioarsenate binds to Fe oxides as a monoclentate, inner-sphere complex. In the presence of Fe, sulfides, mono- and tetrathioarsenate were both unstable and partially reduced to arsenite. Adsorption of the thiolated As species to the Fe sulfide minerals also caused the substitution of surface sulfur (S) atoms by As and the formation of As Fe bonds.
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