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16294871

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
21
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-11-18
pubmed:abstractText
Humin is a major fraction of soil organic matter and strongly affects the sorption behavior and fate of organic contaminants in soils and sediments. This study evaluated four different extraction methods for soil humins in terms of their organic carbon structural changes and the consequent effects on phenanthrene sorption. Solid-state 13C NMR demonstrated that 0.1 M NaOH exhaustively extracted humin and humin extracted with 6 M HF/HCl at 60 degrees C had a relatively high amount of aliphatic components as compared with 1 M HF-extracted humin. The treatment of 6 M HF/HCl at 60 degrees C greatly reduced carbohydrate components (50-108 ppm) from humin samples, i.e., more than 50% reduction. In addition, the humin from this 6 M HF/HCl treatment contained relatively more amorphous poly(methylene) domains than the humins extracted by other methods. With the respect to phenanthrene sorption, the linearity of sorption isotherm (N) and sorption affinity (Koc) varied markedly among the humin samples extracted by different methods. The NaOH exhaustively extracted humin had the most nonlinear sorption isotherm and the HF-extracted humin had the lowest Koc. It is concluded that humin samples from different extraction procedures exhibited substantial differences in their organic carbon structure and sorption characteristics, even though they were from the same soil. Therefore, one needs to be cautious when comparing the structural and sorption features of soil humins, especially when they are extracted differently. The 6 M HCl/HF extraction at elevated temperature is not encouraged, due to the modifications of chemical structure and physical conformation of organic matter.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0013-936X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
39
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
8333-40
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Chemical extractions affect the structure and phenanthrene sorption of soil humin.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't