Leaching profiles

Figure 8. U concentration profiles measured using ICP-MS for bones from Boxgrove. These bones show characteristic leached profiles (compare with Fig. 5), and are rejected as unsuitable for dating. [Used by permission of Elsevier Science, from Pike et al. (2002), Geochim Cosmochim Acta, Vol. 66, Fig. 5f, p. 4280.]...

Figure 57.7. The leaching profiles of the multiphase powder alloys in Table 57.2.

Figure 12.3. Leaching profiles of metals in SRM 2710 soil obtained by the application of extractants according to the original SM T three-step sequential extraction protocol using (a) a flow-through microcolumn-based system (column inner volume, 0.36 mL sample, 25 mg extraction flow rate, 3 mL min subfraction volume, 5 mL), and (b) a flow-through rotating coiled column-based system (column inner volume, 20 mL sample, 500 mg extraction flow rate, 1 mL min subfraction volume, 10 mL). [(a) From Chomchoei et al., 2005b) (h) from Fedotov et al., 2005b, by permission of the Royal Society of Chemistry.)...

Cautionary reports regarding the postmortem accumulation of lead into bones have not always been headed. Correlations between soil and bone lead content from a depositional environment, and failures to remove diagenetic lead from buried bone have been reported (Waldron 1982, Patterson et al. 1987). Lead does not only accumulate in bone diagenetically, but can also be lost through migration out of bone (Jaworowski et al. 1985). The possibility of both uptake and loss of any element, without knowledge of uptake or leaching profiles within a bone, makes dietary or environmental interpretations suspect. 

Stationary batteries serve predominantly as an emergency power supply, i.e., they are on continuous standby in order to be discharged for brief periods and sometimes deeply, up to 100 percent of nominal capacity, in the rare case of need. The following profile of requirements for the separator thus arises very low electrical resistance, low acid displacement, no leaching of substances harmful to float-... 

Movement of carbonates and salts can also occur in a similar fashion. As these minerals are weathered in the upper soil profile, their component ions go into solution and are moved down through the soil by rainfall entering the soil. As the water moves down the soil there may not be enough water to move the ions out of the soil, so they precipitate in a lower horizon where they accumulate. Such accumulations are common in arid environments with limited rainfall. In high rainfall areas, carbonates and salts are usually completely removed from the soil through leaching. 

Several facts have emerged from our studies with 2,7-DCDD and 2,3,7,8-TCDD. They are not biosynthesized by condensation of chloro-phenols in soils, and they are not photoproducts of 2,4-dichlorophenol. They do not leach into the soil profile and consequently pose no threat to groundwater, and they are not taken up by plants from minute residues likely to occur in soils. Photodecomposition is insignificant on dry soil surfaces but is probably important in water. Dichlorodibenzo-p-dioxin is lost by volatilization, but TCDD is probably involatile. These compounds are not translocated within the plant from foliar application, and they are degraded in the soil. 

Leach AR, Bradshaw J, Green DVS, Hann MM, Delany JJ III. Implementation of a system for reagent selection and library enumeration, profiling and design. / Chem Inf Comput Sci 1999 39 1161-72. 

Figure 24. Drawing of the continuous leaching model used by Vigier et al. (2001) to estimate the residence time of particles in the soils of the Mackenzie Basin, and the related equations. This model assumes that particles are continuously leached in the soil before leaving to the river. Dissolved load of the river integrates the present leaching of the whole soil profile. 238, 234, 230 and 226 are the leaching coefficients of h and Tla nuclides, respectively, and x is the duration of the chentical...

Figure 6. Development of date profiles during the leaching scenario = 1.0). Because U but not...

Chitwood (2) found that copper compounds exhibited only a short period of maximum catalytic activity for the dehydrogenation of ethanolamine to glycine salt. In this study, the catalytic activity of a skeletal copper catalyst was tested in repeated use. The catalyst used was prepared by selectively leaching CuAl2 particles in a 6.1 M NaOH solution at 293 K for 24 hours. Figure 1 shows the profiles of hydrogen evolved versus reaction time. 

Simple models are used to Identify the dominant fate or transport path of a material near the terrestrial-atmospheric Interface. The models are based on partitioning and fugacity concepts as well as first-order transformation kinetics and second-order transport kinetics. Along with a consideration of the chemical and biological transformations, this approach determines if the material is likely to volatilize rapidly, leach downward, or move up and down in the soil profile in response to precipitation and evapotranspiration. This determination can be useful for preliminary risk assessments or for choosing the appropriate more complete terrestrial and atmospheric models for a study of environmental fate. The models are illustrated using a set of pesticides with widely different behavior patterns. 

Table III illustrates the impact of adsorption on the leaching of organic chemicals in the soil. A water input of 305 cm was used, which is equivalent to a full year of precipitation in the eastern United States. In a soil with a field capacity of 30%, the water would penetrate 1017 cm. Mirex with a very large Kqc is practically immobile after a full year of precipitation, it is still on the surface. It is likely that any compound adsorbed this strongly would be carried off the land surface by soil erosion instead of being leached into the soil. In contrast, DBCP, which is very weakly adsorbed, penetrates the soil profile almost as far as the water does.

For each of the model compounds, some material will have leached deeper Into the soil than Is shown in the table. The model calculates only the position of maximum concentration. For a compound like DBCP, which has a very weak adsorption interaction with the soil, the concentration profile will be spread out. DBCP would probably be found at low concentrations at the 1017 cm level. For the strongly adsorbed compounds, such as toxaphene and methoxychlor, the concentration peak will be narrow, and the depth of maximum concentration is the depth where most of the material is. 

DBCP. The predictions suggest that DBCP is volatile and diffuses rapidly into the atmosphere and that it is also readily leached into the soil profile. In the model soil, its volatilization half-life was only 1.2 days when it was assumed to be evenly distributed into the top 10 cm of soil. However, DBCP could be leached as much as 50 cm deep by only 25 cm of water, and at this depth diffusion to the surface would be slow. From the literature study of transformation processes, we found no clear evidence for rapid oxidation or hydrolysis. Photolysis would not occur below the soil surface. No useable data for estimating biodegradation rates were found although Castro and Belser (28) showed that biodegradation did occur. The rate was assumed to be slow because all halogenated hydrocarbons degrade slowly. DBCP was therefore assumed to be persistent. 

Mlrex. Mirex does not leach into the soil profile and is predicted to volatilize only slowly. There Is no evidence for any rapid transformation so it should be considered persistent. Because It is so strongly adsorbed to the soil and stays on the surface, a major loss from terrestrial systems would probably be erosion and transport Into surface waters. 

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