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GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
卷 72, 期 18, 页码 4457-4468出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2008.06.018
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- National Science Foundation [EAR-0229387]
- Department of Energy [DE-FG02-94ER 14467]
Recent discoveries demonstrate that the chemistry of arsenic in sulfidic waters is much more complex that previously believed. One implication is that all earlier thermodynamic data on stabilities of As thioanions require revision. Previously used experimental approaches for determining As thioanion stabilities may be inadequate to deal with the full range of complexity. Here we use computational as well as empirical information to construct a provisional model for equilibrium As thioanion distributions in sulfidic waters. Whereas previous authors have argued for either As(III) or As(V) thioanions, the new model predicts that both are important and can occur simultaneously under commonly encountered pH and Sigma S-II conditions. At the order of magnitude level, the model reasonably predicts the solubility of As2S3 in sulfidic solutions, provides tentative peak assignments for published Raman spectroscopic data and plausibly accounts for how sulfide modifies the bacterial toxicity of As. The model yields a thermodynamic justification for how sulfide, which is usually regarded as a reducing agent, can counter-intuitively drive oxidation of As(III) to As(V), as has been observed both in the laboratory and in the field. Despite its uncertain accuracy, the model serves as a useful source of new, testable hypotheses about As geochemistry and highlights crucial experimental data needs. (C) 2008 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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