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The implications of Fe speciation for the humic substance stability of ternary Fe(III)–montmorillonite–humic substance systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2023

Qinkai Lei ,
Yahui Lv ,
Chengshuai Liu ,
Wenpo Xu ,
Shujie Hu ,
Manjia Chen ,
Hongling Bu Open the ORCID record for Hongling Bu [Opens in a new window]  and
Junhui Li
Qinkai Lei
Affiliation:
School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China National–Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Yahui Lv
Affiliation:
National–Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Chengshuai Liu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, China
Wenpo Xu
Affiliation:
National–Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Shujie Hu
Affiliation:
National–Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Manjia Chen
Affiliation:
National–Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Hongling Bu*
Affiliation:
School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China National–Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Junhui Li
Affiliation:
School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
*
Corresponding author: Hongling Bu; Email: buhongling@gdut.edu.cn
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Abstract

Mineral–organic matter (OM) associations play an important role in determining the long-term retention of OM in soils. However, the retention mechanisms of OM in cation–mineral–OM systems remain unclear. Taking into account the dominance of montmorillonite (Mnt) in the soil of the temperate zone, we investigated the stability of humic substances (HSs) in the Fe(III)–Mnt–HS system using thermal analysis. The HS degradation started at ~387°C in the Fe(III)–Mnt–HS system, which was higher than that of the Fe(III)–HS system (290°C). The formed ferrihydrite (Fhy) mainly contributed to the enhanced labile OM retention through adsorption and/or co-precipitation, whereas Mnt inhibited the initial formation and subsequent transformation of Fhy, thus improving the stability of OM. These results suggest that the HS stability in Fe(III)–clay–HS systems depends on the Fe speciation affected by clay minerals, and this finding provides insights into OM–mineral interactions in temperate-zone soils.

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Fe speciationhumic substancesmineral–organic associationmontmorillonitethermal analysis
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Clay Minerals , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , December 2023 , pp. 335 - 344
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Mineralogical Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

Guest Editor: Hongjuan Sun

This paper was submitted for the special issue devoted to ICC2022.

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