Sorption of inorganic mercury and monomethyl mercury in an iron–humus podzol soil of southern Norway studied by batch experiments |
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| Authors: | K Schlüter |
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| Institution: | Institut für Landeskultur Senckenbergstr. 3, 35390 Giessen, Germany E-mail: KaiSchlueter@agrar.uni-giessen.de, DE
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| Abstract: | Considerable fractions of the Hg content of lake and river systems in Scandinavia are discharged from the soil of the catchments. An important soil type in Scandinavia is the iron–humus podzol. The sorption characteristics of this soil type for inorganic Hg(II) and monomethyl mercury were investigated by batch experiments. The solubility of Hg2+ and CH3Hg+ in the soil horizons containing organic matter increases with increasing pH of the soil solution by favoring the formation of solute organic matter–mercury complexes. While the solubility of Hg2+ is strongly dependent on complexation to dissolved organic matter, the solubility of CH3Hg+ is more dependent on ion exchange. The concentration of solute inorganic Hg(II) increased with increasing temperature probably because of an increase in the concentration of dissolved organic carbon. There was no effect of temperature on the concentration of solute CH3Hg+. At pH values where inorganic mercury–hydroxo complexes are formed, inorganic Hg(II) is efficiently sorbed to the metal oxides of the mineral soil. The soil–water distributions of inorganic Hg(II) in the different soil horizons were described by Freundlich isotherms or linear isotherms for common and contaminated mercury contents in the soils. |
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