10.6084/m9.figshare.4522649.v1
Takumi Saito
Takumi
Saito
Noboru Aoyagi
Noboru
Aoyagi
Motoki Terashima
Motoki
Terashima
Europium binding to humic substances extracted from deep underground sedimentary groundwater studied by time-resolved laser fluorescence spectroscopy
Taylor & Francis Group
2017
Humic substances
deep underground
europium
time-resolved laser fluorescence spectroscopy
parallel factor analysis
2017-01-05 20:44:34
Journal contribution
https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Europium_binding_to_humic_substances_extracted_from_deep_underground_sedimentary_groundwater_studied_by_time-resolved_laser_fluorescence_spectroscopy/4522649
<p>Humic substances (HSs) are ubiquitous in various environments including deep underground and play an important role in the speciation and mobility of radionuclides. The binding of Eu<sup>3+</sup>, a chemical homologue of trivalent actinide ions, to HSs isolated from sedimentary groundwater at −250 m below the surface was studied by time-resolved laser fluorescence spectroscopy combined with parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) as a function of pH and salt concentration. PARAFAC modeling reveals the presence of multiple factors that correspond to different Eu<sup>3+</sup> species. These factors resemble those observed for Eu<sup>3+</sup> binding to HSs from surface environments; however, detailed comparison shows that there are some particularities in Eu<sup>3+</sup> binding to the deep groundwater HSs. The distribution coefficients (<i>K</i><sub>d</sub>) of Eu<sup>3+</sup> binding to the HSs calculated from the PARAFAC modeling exhibits a rather strong salt effect. At 0.01 M NaClO<sub>4</sub>, the <i>K</i><sub>d</sub> values are relatively large and comparable to those to the surface HSs; they are decreaed at 0.1 M NaClO<sub>4</sub> by more than an order of the magnitude. The <i>K</i><sub>d</sub> values are larger for the humic acid fraction of the deep underground HSs than the fulvic acid fraction over the entire range of pH and salt concentration investigated in this study.</p>