Ionic strength-induced formation of smectite quasicrystals enhances nitroaromatic compound sorption |
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Authors: | Li Hui Pereira Tanya R Teppen Brian J Laird David A Johnston Cliff T Boyd Stephen A |
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Affiliation: | Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, National Soil Tilth Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA. lihui@msu.edu |
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Abstract: | Sorption of organic contaminants by soils is a determinant controlling their transport and fate in the environment. The influence of ionic strength on nitroaromatic compound sorption by K+- and Ca2+ -saturated smectite was examined. Sorption of 1,3-dinitrobenzene by K-smectite increased as KCl ionic strength increased from 0.01 to 0.30 M. In contrast, sorption by Ca-smectite at CaCl2 ionic strengths of 0.015 and 0.15 M remained essentially the same. The "salting-out" effect on the decrease of 1,3-dinitrobenzene aqueous solubility within this ionic strength range was <1.5% relative to the solubility in pure water. This decrease of solubility is insufficient to account for the observed increase of sorption by K-smectite with increasing KCl ionic strength. X-ray diffraction patterns and light absorbance of K-clay suspensions indicated the aggregation of clay particles and the formation of quasicrystal structures as KCI ionic strength increased. Sorption enhancement is attributed to the formation of better-ordered K-clay quasicrystals with reduced interlayer distances rather than to the salting-out effect. Dehydration of 1,3-dinitrobenzene is apparently a significant driving force for sorption, and we show for the first time that sorption of small, planar, neutral organic molecules, namely, 1,3-dinitrobenzene, causes previously expanded clay interlayers to dehydrate and collapse in aqueous suspension. |
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