Plateau typeE(%)- pH curves of interfacial exchange between liquid and solid in seawater

A study on the curves of the exchange ratioE(%)- pH on the liquid-solid interface of the systems Zn (II) with clay minerals, (Kaolinite, illite and montmorillonite), Zn (II) with hydrous ferric oxides (amorphous ferric oxide, geothite and hematite), Zn (II) with hydrous manganese oxide (γ-MnOOH, manganite and δ-MnO₂) etc. in seawater resulted in the discovery of new plateau type exchange ratioE(%)-pH curves not yet reported in literature. The two factors that decide the growth, decline and the change of the “plateau type” curve are: (1) the inherent characteristics of systems, which can be explained by the exchange constants (i=1, 2, 3, etc.) of interfacial stepwise ion/coordination particle exchange between liquid and solid; and (2) . The theory of interfacial stepwise ion/coordination particle exchange in seawater was applied to explain the experimental results of the above study and a general formula was derived for the plateau type exchange ratioE(%)-pH curves. The theoretically simulated and calculated curves coincided well with the experimental results. This paper provides new and powerful experimental basis to support the theory of interfacial stepwise ion/coordination particle exchange in seawater. The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.