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Article Dans Une Revue Environmental Science and Technology Année : 2005

XAS Evidence of As(V) Association with Iron Oxyhydroxides in a Contaminated Soil at a Former Arsenical Pesticide Processing Plant.

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The molecular-level speciation of arsenic has been determined in a soil profile in the Massif Central near Auzon, France that was impacted by As-based pesticides by combining conventional techniques (XRD, selective chemical extractions) with X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The arsenic concentration is very high at the top (>7000 mg kg-1) and decreases rapidly downward to a few hundreds of milligrams per kilogram. A thin layer of schultenite (PbHAsO4), a lead arsenate commonly used as an insecticide until the middle of the 20th century, was found at 10 cm depth. Despite the occurrence of this As-bearing mineral, oxalate extraction indicated that more than 65% of the arsenic was released upon dissolution of amorphous iron oxides, suggesting a major association of arsenic with these phases within the soil profile. Since oxalate extraction cannot unambiguously distinguish among the various chemical forms of arsenic, these results were confirmed by a direct in situ determination of arsenic speciation using XAS analysis. XANES data indicate that arsenic occurs mainly as As(V) along the soil profile except for the topsoil sample where a minor amount (7%) of As(III) was detected. EXAFS spectra of soil samples were fit by linear combinations of model compounds spectra and by a shell-by-shell method. These procedures clearly confirmed that As(V) is mainly (at least 80 wt %) associated with amorphous Fe(III) oxides as coprecipitates within the soil profile. If any, the proportion of schultenite, which was evidenced by XRD in a separate thin white layer, does not account for more than 10 wt % of arsenic in soil samples. This study emphasizes the importance of iron oxides in restricting arsenic dispersal within soils following dissolution of primary As-bearing solids manufactured for use as pesticides and released into the soils.

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hal-00020203 , version 1 (08-03-2006)

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B. Cancès, F. Juillot, G. Morin, Valérie Laperche, L. Alvarez, et al.. XAS Evidence of As(V) Association with Iron Oxyhydroxides in a Contaminated Soil at a Former Arsenical Pesticide Processing Plant.. Environmental Science and Technology, 2005, 39, pp.9398-9405. ⟨10.1021/es050920n⟩. ⟨hal-00020203⟩
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