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Mössbauer Spectra of Soil Kaolins from South-Western Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Tim G. St. Pierre ,
Balwant Singh ,
John Webb  and
Bob Gilkes
Tim G. St. Pierre
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150
Balwant Singh
Affiliation:
Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, School of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009
John Webb*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150
Bob Gilkes
Affiliation:
Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, School of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009
*
3Person to whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Abstract

Six well-characterized soil kaolins from widely separated sites in south-western Australia and four reference kaolins were studied by 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy at room temperature after removal of non-structurally-bound iron with dithionite-citrate-bicarbonate solution. The soil kaolins and one of the reference kaolins were also studied at temperatures near 16 K. The soil kaolins were remarkably similar in crystal size, crystallinity, dehydroxylation temperature, cation exchange capacity, surface area and iron content. Müssbauer spectra of the soil kaolins at room temperature were also essentially identical consisting of a quadrupole-split doublet superimposed on a broad component which indicated that all of the iron was present as Fe(III) and that slow paramagnetic relaxation effects were present. Mean values for the chemical isomer shift and quadrupole splitting of the doublet for the soil kaolins were 0.33 and 0.55 mm/s respectively which indicates that the iron is in the octahedral sites of the kaolin lattice. The spectra of the soil kaolin samples at temperatures near 16 K showed a further slowing down of the paramagnetic relaxation and confirmed that no discrete iron oxide minerals were present.

Mössbauer spectra of the four reference kaolins at room temperature showed a doublet component similar to those for the soil kaolins. Three of them showed evidence for other spectral components including, in two cases, a component due to the presence of Fe(II).

Keywords

IronKaolinMössbauer spectroscopy
Type
Research Article
Information
Clays and Clay Minerals , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , June 1992 , pp. 341 - 346
Copyright
Copyright © 1992, The Clay Minerals Society

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