Chemical relaxation methods oxide-solution

Chemical relaxation methods can be used to determine mechanisms of reactions of ions at the mineral/water interface. In this paper, a review of chemical relaxation studies of adsorption/desorption kinetics of inorganic ions at the metal oxide/aqueous interface is presented. Plausible mechanisms based on the triple layer surface complexation model are discussed. Relaxation kinetic studies of the intercalation/ deintercalation of organic and inorganic ions in layered, cage-structured, and channel-structured minerals are also reviewed. In the intercalation studies, plausible mechanisms based on ion-exchange and adsorption/desorption reactions are presented steric and chemical properties of the solute and interlayered compounds are shown to influence the reaction rates. We also discuss the elementary reaction steps which are important in the stereoselective and reactive properties of interlayered compounds. 

See especially Chaps. 2 and 3 in D. L. Sparks and D. L. Suarez, op. cit.10 A summary review of chemical relaxation methods is given by T. Yasunaga and T. Ikeda, Adsorption-desorption kinetics at the metal-oxide-solution interface studied by relaxation methods, Chap. 12 in J. A. Davis and K. F. Hays, op. cit.2... 

Yasunaga, T. and T. Ikeda (1986), Adsorption-Desorption Kinetics at the Metal-oxide-Solution Interface studied by Relaxation Methods, in J. A. Davies and K. F. Hayes, Eds., Geochemical Processes at Mineral Surfaces, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, pp. 230-253. 

Relaxation methods are used to determine the chemical diffusion coefficient, i.e., to simplify the calculations it is commonly assumed that the surface of the sample equilibrates immediately with the newly imposed atmosphere. The latter assumption leads to standard analytical solutions of Pick s second law under the special initial and boundary conditions applicable to the experiment. However, for oxides like, for example, Fe, xO and Mn, xO, the surface reaction exerts a clear influence on the overall equilibration kinetics. 

---