Rocks alkalinity

Since the complete story of carbon would be a history of organic chemistry, asphalt, carbonate rocks, alkaline carbonates, fuels, foods, plant and animal nutrition, photosynthesis, and respiration, the following brief sketch can merely suggest the magnitude of the subject. 

There are many possibilities in the air, in the sea, on the shallow seafloor, on the deep seafloor, near on-land hydrothermal systems around andesite volcanoes (variable, intermediate to low pH), near on-land hydrothermal systems around koma-tiite volcanoes and hot ultramafic rocks (alkaline), near deep-water hydrothermal systems (acid), near carbonatite-driven hydrothermal systems (which could be phosphoms-rich), in hydrothermal systems under ice caps, in shallow-water tidal muds, anywhere else that is fancied. 

Organic tellurium compounds and siliceous materials, ie, rock, ore, or concentrates, are fused with mixtures of sodium carbonate and alkaline oxidants, ie, sodium peroxide, potassium nitrate, or potassium persulfate. For volatile compounds, this fusion is performed in a bomb or a closed-system microwave digestion vessel. An oxidising fusion usually converts tellurium into Te(VI) rather than Te(IV). 

Barium [7440-39-3] Ba, is a member of Group 2 (IIA) of the periodic table where it Hes between strontium and radium. Along with calcium and strontium, barium is classed as an alkaline earth metal, and is the densest of the three. Barium metal does not occur free in nature however, its compounds occur in small but widely distributed amounts in the earth s cmst, especially in igneous rocks, sandstone, and shale. The principal barium minerals are barytes [13462-86-7] (barium sulfate) and witherite [14941-39-0] (barium carbonate) which is also known as heavy spar. The latter mineral can be readily decomposed via calcination to form barium oxide [1304-28-5] BaO, which is the ore used commercially for the preparation of barium metal. 

Gays are an essential component of soils, to which we owe our survival, and they are also the raw materials for some of mankind s most ancient and essential artefacts pottery, bricks, tiles, etc. Clays are formed by the weathering and decomposition of igneous rocks and occur typically as very fine panicles e.g. kaolinite is formed as hexagonal plates of edge. 1-3 p m by the weathering of alkaline feldspar... 

Weight-up to overcome salt water flow. Chemical treatment as for salt rock. Run alkalinity test and calculate CO3 and HCO3 ions concentration. Calculate lime required ... 

Soil reaction (pH) The relationship between the environment and development of acid or alkaline conditions in soil has been discussed with respect to formation of soils from the parent rock materials. Soil acidity comes in part by the formation of carbonic acid from carbon dioxide of biological origin and water. Other acidic development may come from acid residues of weathering, shifts in mineral types, loss of alkaline or basic earth elements by leaching, formation of organic or inorganic acids by microbial activity, plant root secretions, and man-made pollution of the soil, especially by industrial wastes. 

The monosulfides of the alkaline earth metals crystallize in the rock salt (MgS, CaS, SrS, BaS) and zinc blende (BeS) structures. BaS is insoluble in water, while the other monosulfides are sparingly soluble but hydrolyzed on warming (except MgS that is completely hydrolyzed). The monoselenides are isomorphous to the sulfides. The monotellurides CaTe, SrTe, BaTe adopt the rock salt stmcture, while BeTe has the zinc blende and MgTe the wurtzite structure. Alkaline earth polysulfides may be prepared by boiling a solution or suspension of the metal hydroxide with sulfur, e.g.,... 

Most monochalcogenides of the Group 3 metals adopt the rock salt (NaCl) structure. Note that the crystal chemistry of divalent europium is very similar to that of the alkaline earths, particularly strontium, as the radius of Eu is almost the same as that of Sr ". For the Yb compounds, the cell dimensions are practically identical with those of the Ca compounds. 

D and 8 0 data on fluid inclusions and minerals at main stage of epithermal Au-Ag mineralization clearly indicate that the dominant source of ore fluids is meteoric water. Meteoric water penetrates downwards and is heated by the country rocks and/or intrusive rocks. The heated water interacts with country rocks and/or intrusive rocks and extracts sulfur, Au, Ag and other soft cations (e.g., Hg, Tl) from these rocks. If hydrothermal solution boils, it becomes neutral or slightly alkaline, leading to the selective leaching of soft cations such as Au, Ag, Hg and Tl from country rocks. However, a contribution of sulfur gas and other components from magma cannot be ruled out. 

Figure 1.167. Sulfur content vs. value for Quaternary volcanic rocks of Japan. Field bounded by solid lines show two volcanoes (AK and HK), two volcanic zones (NA and CH) in Northeast Japan, three volcanic belts (IM, SW and RY), alkaline rocks (AL) and volcanic rocks of unusually high values (HI) in Ryukyu belt. Symbols surrounded by small circles show S S values of Satsuma-Iwojima volcanic rocks in West Japan (Ueda and Sakai, 1984).

Hot spring-type gold deposits (Nansatsu-type by Urashima et al. (1981,1987), high sulfidation-type by Hedenquist (1987), epithermal Au disseminated-type) are distributed in the Nansatsu district of southern Kyushu (Fig. 1.193). The deposits (Kasuga, Akeshi, Iwato) were formed at Pliocene age (5.5-3.7 m.y.) in the calc-alkaline volcanic rocks of nearly same age (Togashi and Shibata, 1984). The deposits, which are similar to Nansatsu-type deposits, occur in Southwest Hokkaido (Date, Hakurhu). 

Previous studies clearly indicated that the chemical compositions of geothermal waters are intimately related both to the hydrothermal alteration mineral assemblages of country rocks and to temperature. Shikazono (1976, 1978a) used a logarithmie cation-Cl concentration diagram to interpret the concentrations of alkali and alkaline earth elements and pH of geothermal waters based on thermochemical equilibrium between hydrothermal solution and alteration minerals. 

Kubota, 1991). For example, in the south Kyushu (Nansatsu district), the southwest Hokkaido and the north Hokkaido epithermal Au deposits are hosted by andesitic rocks (calc-alkaline rocks) and ages of mineralization are close to those of andesitic volcanic activity (Watanabe, 1990). 

In buffered surfactant-enhanced alkaline flooding, it was found that the minimum in interfacial tension and the region of spontaneous emulsification correspond to a particular pH range, so by buffering the aqueous pH against changes in alkali concentration, a low interfacial tension can be maintained when the amount of alkali decreases because of acids, rock consumption, and dispersion [1826]. 

The simplest proxy to identify is that of Ba for Ra. As noted above, both are heavy alkaline earths, which form large divalent cations. They exclusively enter large cation sites with at least Vlll-fold coordination. There are a large number of Ba partition coefficients for the major rock-forming minerals over a wide range of conditions, which make it an ideal proxy. 

Injection of highly acid or alkaline wastes has the potential to dissolve some reservoir rock to create channels that would allow more distant transport of small particles. Table 20.11 summarizes the various physical parameters that affect particle migration in porous-media flow. 

Increasing the water-wet surface area of a petroleum reservoir is one mechanism by which alkaline floods recover incremental oil(19). Under basic pH conditions, organic acids in acidic crudes produce natural surfactants which can alter the wettability of pore surfaces. Recovery of incremental oil by alkaline flooding is dependent on the pH and salinity of the brine (20), the acidity of the crude and the wettability of the porous medium(1,19,21,22). Thus, alkaline flooding is an oil and reservoir specific recovery process which can not be used in all reservoirs. The usefulness of alkaline flooding is also limited by the large volumes of caustic required to satisfy rock reactions(23). 

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