Organic matter on clay minerals and marine sediments - effect on adsorption of dissolved copper, phosphate, and lipids from saline solutions

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

1-1-1974

Abstract

Adsorption of dissolved copper and phosphate by natural and peroxide-treated marine sediments was compared. A three-fold increase in copper adsorption and a six-fold increase in phosphate adsorption was caused by the peroxide treatment. Indigenous organic matter evidently interferes with adsorption. Clay minerals coated with heptadecanoic acid adsorbed somewhat less copper, phosphate, and hexadecane than uncoated clays, but slightly more nonadecanoic acid and anthracene. © 1974.

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Chemical Geology

Volume

13

Issue

1

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