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The influence of pH on the synthesis of mixed Fe-Mn oxide minerals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

M. H. Ebinger  and
D. G. Schulze
M. H. Ebinger
Affiliation:
Agronomy Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
D. G. Schulze
Affiliation:
Agronomy Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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Abstract

Mn-substituted iron oxides were synthesized at pH 4, 6, 8, and 10 from Fe-Mn systems with Mn mole fractions (Mn/(Mn + Fe)) of 0, 0·2, 0·4, 0·6, 0·8, and 1·0, and kept at 50°C for 40 days. The Mn mole fraction in goethite was <0·07 at pH 4 but increased to ∼0.47 at pH 6. Goethite and/or hematite formed in Fe and Fe + Mn syntheses at pH 4 and pH 6 at Mn mole fractions ≤0·8, and at Mn mole fractions ≤0·2 at pH 8 and pH 10. Hausmannite and jacobsite formed at pH 8 and pH 10 at Mn mole fractions ≥0·4. In the pure Mn syntheses, manganite (γ-MnOOH) formed at pH 4 and pH 6, whereas hausmannite (Mn3O4) formed at pH 8 and pH 10. As the Mn substitution increased, the unit-cell dimensions of goethite shifted toward those of groutite, and the mean crystallite dimensions of goethite decreased.

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Clay Minerals , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , December 1990 , pp. 507 - 518
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1990

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