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GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 75, Issue 19, Pages 5762-5784Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.07.022
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- JSPS
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23840058, 21654082, 20109005, 22224011] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The distribution of Mo between seawater and marine ferromanganese oxides has great impacts on concentration and isotopic composition of Mo in modern oxic seawater. To reveal the adsorption chemistry of Mo to ferromanganese oxides, we performed (i) detailed structural analyses of Mo surface complexes on delta-MnO2, ferrihydrite, and hydrogenetic ferromanganese oxides by L-3- and K-edge XAFS, and (ii) adsorption experiments of Mo to delta-MnO2 and ferrihydrite over a wide range of pHs, ionic strengths, and Mo concentrations. XAFS analyses revealed that Mo forms distorted octahedral (Oh) inner-sphere complexes on delta-MnO2 whereas it forms a tetrahedral (Td) outer-sphere complex on ferrihydrite. In the hydrogenetic ferromanganese oxides, the dominant host phase of Mo was revealed to be delta-MnO2. These structural information are consistent with the macroscopic behaviors of Mo in adsorption experiments, and Mo concentration in modern oxic seawater can be explained by the equilibrium adsorption reaction on delta-MnO2. In addition, the large isotopic fractionation of Mo between seawater and ferromanganese oxides detected in previous studies can be explained by the structural difference between MoO42- and adsorbed species on the delta-MnO2 phase in ferromanganese oxides. In contrast, smaller fractionation of Mo isotopes on ferrihydrite is due to little change in the Mo local structures during its adsorption to ferrihydrite. The structures of Mo species adsorbed on crystalline Fe (oxyhydr) oxides, goethite, and hematite were also investigated at pH 8 and I = 0.70 M (NaNO3). Our XAFS analyses revealed that Mo forms inner-sphere complexes on both minerals: Td edge-sharing (46%) and Oh double corner-sharing (54%) for goethite, and Td double corner-sharing (14%) and Oh edge-sharing (86%) for hematite. These structural information, combined with those for amorphous ferrihydrite and delta-MnO2, show the excellent correlation with the magnitude of adsorptive isotopic fractionation of Mo reported in previous studies: the proportion of Oh species or their magnitude of distortion in Mo surface complexes become larger in the order of ferrihydrite < goethite < hematite < delta-MnO2, a trend identical to the magnitude of isotopic fractionation. Based on the comparison with previous reports for Mo surface species on various oxides, the chemical factors that affect Mo surface complex structures were also discussed. The hydrolysis constant of cation in oxides, log KOH (or the acidity of the oxide surfaces, PZC) is well correlated with the mode of attachment (inner-or outer-sphere) of Mo surface complexes. Furthermore, the symmetric change in Mo species from Td to Oh is suggested to be driven by the formation of inner-sphere complexes on specific sites of the oxide surfaces. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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