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The nature of an iron oxide—organic iron association in a peaty environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

U. Schwertmann
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl für Bodenkunde, Technische Universität München, D-8050 Freising-Weihenstephan, Federal Republic of Germany
E. Murad
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl für Bodenkunde, Technische Universität München, D-8050 Freising-Weihenstephan, Federal Republic of Germany

Abstract

Fe oxides deposited in ditches draining a bog in the Harz Mountains, Northern Germany, consist essentially of a two-XRD line ferrihydrite that has a magnetic hyperfine field of only 46·5 T at 4·2 K. Pyrophosphate extraction led to an incomplete separation of this from organically-bound Fe, which was depleted in the residue and particularly enriched in the dialysate of the extract. Decomposition of humics with H2O2 led to a further depletion of organic Fe, but also increased the number of XRD lines of the ferrihydrite to six, and raised the hyperfine field by ∼1 T. These modifications are probably the result of an improved interparticle coherence.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1988

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