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Study of the deterioration of sandstone due to acid rain and humid SO 2 gas

Author(s) -

Holynska Barbara,

GilewiczWolter Jolanta,

Ostachowicz Beata,

Bielewski Marek,

Streli Christina,

Wobrauschek Peter

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

x‐ray spectrometry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.447

H-Index - 45

eISSN - 1097-4539

pISSN - 0049-8246

DOI - 10.1002/xrs.723

Subject(s) - aqueous solution , sulfur , mineralogy , geology , chemistry , environmental chemistry , materials science , metallurgy , organic chemistry

The aim of this work was to study the deterioration of various kinds of sandstone due to acid rain and SO 2 gas. The samples were taken from three quarries in Poland and one sample was from a tomb about 100 years old. To elucidate the mechanism of stone deterioration, simple experiments were performed. The sandstone samples were immersed for several weeks in SO 2 aqueous solution of pH ≈ 4. Similar experiments were performed using SO 2 aqueous solution of pH ≈ 1.5. The concentrations of Ca, Mg and Fe leached from the sandstone samples were measured with TXRF. An additional experiment was carried out with the use of radioactive 35 SO 2 . The samples were exposed to both 35 SO 2 aqueous solution and to 35 SO 2 gas. The autoradiograms obtained from the sample cross‐sections indicated that sulfur penetrated to the interior parts of sandstone samples, especially from SO 2 gas. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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