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Investigation of Organic Matter Entrapped in Synthetic Carbonates—A Multimethod Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2012

Emilie Chalmin ,
Yves Perrette ,
Bernard Fanget  and
Jean Susini
Emilie Chalmin*
Affiliation:
ESRF, BP 220, 38043 Grenoble, France EDYTEM, UMR 5204, Université de Savoie/CNRS, 73376 Le Bourget du Lac, France
Yves Perrette
Affiliation:
EDYTEM, UMR 5204, Université de Savoie/CNRS, 73376 Le Bourget du Lac, France
Bernard Fanget
Affiliation:
EDYTEM, UMR 5204, Université de Savoie/CNRS, 73376 Le Bourget du Lac, France
Jean Susini
Affiliation:
ESRF, BP 220, 38043 Grenoble, France
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: emilie.chalmin-aljanabi@univ-savoie.fr
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Abstract

Organic matter (OM) entrapped in calcite is regularly used for environmental studies; however, insertion mechanisms and types of interaction remain poorly understood. The present study used a new methodology to investigate interactions between OM and the calcite matrix during crystallization processes with humic acid (HA) entrapment. A multimethod approach confirmed that HA is both adsorbed onto the calcite surface and incorporated into the calcite lattice during crystallization. Our results also confirm the log-linear correlation between fluorescence intensity and calcite matrix HA concentration. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy showed that HA in colloidal conformation is adsorbed onto the calcite surface as a result of the structure of the OH stretching band. We also developed a new method based on synchrotron analysis that uses sulfur as a tracer element for entrapped HA and that localizes the OM electrostatically adsorbed onto the calcite surface. Changes in the sulfur environment, determined using X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectroscopy, indicated more complex insertion mechanisms than simple adsorption of HA during calcite crystallization. Desorption experiments revealed the stability of the OM atomic structure and its layered nature. These results allowed us to draw up a general model of OM insertion in calcite.

Keywords

humic acidorganic mattercalcitesynthesisincorporationcharacterizationmicroanalysis
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Materials Applications
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 132 - 144
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2013

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