The uptake of cobalt into ferromanganese nodules,soils, and synthetic manganese (IV) oxides |
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Authors: | Roger G Burns |
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Institution: | Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Strong enrichments of cobalt occur in marine manganese nodules, soils, wads, and natural and synthetic minerals such as hollandite, cryptomelane, psilomelane, lithiophorite, birnessite, and δ-MnO2. Previously, it was suggested that Co3+ ions in these minerals replace either Mn3+ or substitute for Fe3+ in incipient goethite epitaxially intergrown with δ-MnO2. Neither of these interpretations is now considered to be satisfactory on account of the large discrepancy of ionic radius between octahedrally coordinated low-spin Co3+ and high-spin Mn3+ or Fe3+ in oxide structures. The close agreement between the ionic radii of Co3+ and Mn4+ suggests that some cobalt substitutes for Mn4+ ions in edge-shared MnO6] octahedra in many manganese(IV) oxide mineral structures. It is proposed that hydrated cations, including Co2+ ions, are initially adsorbed on to the surfaces of certain Mn(IV) oxides in the vicinity of essential vacancies found in the chains or sheets of edge-shared MnO6] octahedra. Subsequently, fixation of cobalt takes place as a result of oxidation of adsorbed Co2+ ions by Mn4+ and replacement of the displaced manganese by low-spin Co3+ ions in the MnO6] octahedra or vacancies. |
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