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FLUORIDE ADSORPTION BY ILLINOIS SOILS
Author(s) -
OMUETI J. A. I.,
JONES ROBERT L.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of soil science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.244
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1365-2389
pISSN - 0022-4588
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2389.1977.tb02264.x
Subject(s) - adsorption , allophane , langmuir , soil water , montmorillonite , freundlich equation , chemistry , chlorite , weathering , environmental chemistry , inorganic chemistry , geology , materials science , soil science , organic chemistry , geochemistry , quartz , metallurgy
Summary Fourteen surface and 6 subsurface horizons of Illinois soils adsorbed significant amounts of F − with release of OH − . At low concentrations, adsorption was described by both Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms. The calculated Langmuir adsorption capacities were related to pH, clay, organic carbon, and amorphous aluminum contents. Two soils with different gross chemical properties behaved in essentially the same manner, with adsorption maxima occuring between pH 5.5 and 6.5. The similarity between adsorption at different pH values for the soils and those for bauxite, allophane and synthesized ‘soil chlorite’, and the lack of adsorption maxima between pH 5.5 and 6.5 for pure kaolinite and montmorillonite, suggest that F − adsorption in the soils is due primarily to the presence of amorphous aluminum oxyhydroxides which are common weathering products in these soils.