CHROMIUM OXIDATION-REDUCTION CHEMISTRY CONTROLLED BY IRON AND MANGANESE (HYDR)OXIDE SURFACES AND SOILS: COLUMN LEACHING AND SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES

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dc.contributor.advisorJames, Bruce Ren_US
dc.contributor.authorMiller, Christina Langloisen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEnvironmental Science and Technologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-16T05:30:29Z
dc.date.available2014-10-16T05:30:29Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractSoil interfaces, including those defined by horizons and iron (Fe(III)) and manganese (Mn(III,IV)) (hydr)oxide mineral surfaces, are a largely unstudied area in soils research, especially in terms of their oxidation-reduction properties. This study attempted to address two questions related to this research deficiency. The first: how chromium (Cr) redox changes throughout mineralogically different soil horizons, and the second: how Cr redox structurally alters Fe(III) and Mn(III,IV) (hydr)oxides in synthetic, soil, and microbial systems. Both parts of the study used column leaching experiments along with Cr speciation techniques to study simulated soil horizon interfaces and Fe/Cr and Mn/Cr redox systems. X-ray absorption spectroscopic techniques were also utilized to analyze the mineral structure of Fe(III) and Mn(III,IV) (hydr)oxides. The results of the study indicate that there are significant interfacial properties affecting Cr(VI) reduction and that Cr(III) oxidation does change the mineral structures of synthetic, soil, and fungal Mn(III,IV)(hydr)oxides to varying degrees.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2Q88Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/15860
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEnvironmental scienceen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSoil sciencesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledChemistryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIron oxidesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledManganese oxidesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOxidation-reductionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSoil interfacesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledX-ray absorption spectroscopyen_US
dc.titleCHROMIUM OXIDATION-REDUCTION CHEMISTRY CONTROLLED BY IRON AND MANGANESE (HYDR)OXIDE SURFACES AND SOILS: COLUMN LEACHING AND SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIESen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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