CadmiumAdsorptionontoManganeseOxides.pptVIP

Cadmium Isotope Fractionation During Adsorption onto Manganese Oxides Gabriela Monta?ez Mentors: Laura Wasylenki and Ariel Anbar Nutrient to some marine organisms Toxic metal in environment Why adsorption? Adsorption to particles governs cadmium concentration in natural waters Cadmium is immobilized if strongly adsorbed Will cadmium isotopes fractionate during adsorption? What are isotopes? Isotopes are atoms of an element that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons Cadmium has isotopes of mass 106, 108, 110, 111, 112, 114, 116 Will light or heavy isotopes preferentially adsorb to manganese oxides? Seawater vs. natural ferromanganese crusts Horner et al. (2008) sampled ferromanganese sediments and seawater at depth No fractionation was found What would a simple controlled laboratory experiment show? Procedure Mass Spectrometer Fractionation! Implications and Future Work Fractionation tells us that the isotopes might give us a new tool to track cadmium as it moves between water and sediments in the environment Next steps: try adsorption to other minerals find contaminated aquifer to investigate cadmium isotope variations in the real world * Manganese oxide Cd2+ Cd2+ Cd2+ Cd2+ Cd2+ Cd2+ Cd2+ Cd2+ Cd2+ Cd2+ Cd2+ Cd2+ Cadmium stock MnOx stock pH ~ 6 Measure isotope ratio on solution and solid after separation 108 114 ?114/108Cd (‰) I put this through a filter to separate the solid n liquid I analyzed the isotopic composition of the solid vs. liquid on mass spec (delta is a notation used that just scales with the ratio of 114 to 108. is convenient/conventional) No matter how long I ran the experiment, got the same fractionation. AVERAGE FRACTIONATION IS: FOUND FRACTIONATION If the isotopes fractionate, that might lead to a new tool for tracking Cd adsorption in the environment. Otherwise, nobody knows why you care about whether there is fractionation. Make sure to mention mnox is one of most common minerals metals adsorb to in nature Las