Measurement of labile arsenic speciation in water and soil using diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) and X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy (XANES)
Trang Huynh A D , Hugh H. Harris B , Hao Zhang C and Barry N. Noller A
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A The University of Queensland, Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, Sustainable Minerals Institute, Building 47A, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia.
B Department of Chemistry, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
C Lancaster Environment Centre, LEC Building, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom.
D Corresponding author. Email: trang.huynh@uq.edu.au
Environmental Chemistry 12(2) 102-111 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN14047
Submitted: 3 March 2014 Accepted: 25 July 2014 Published: 17 February 2015
Environmental context. Both inorganic and organic arsenic species are toxic to the environment when labile. The Diffusive Gradients in Thin Films technique, equipped with ferrihydrite binding gel enables measurement of labile arsenic species from water and soil solutions. This study indicated that labile arsenic species are quantitatively adsorbed to the gel, and that they are stable for up to 2 weeks following deployment.
Abstract. Arsenic speciation was determined in the solution extracted from a ferrihydrite binding gel layer in a DGT unit (FB-DGT) deployed in water using coupled high-performance liquid chromatography and hydride generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry (HPLC-HG-AFS). However, the extent of change in arsenic speciation during the extraction process is unknown. By identifying the arsenic species in the FB-DGT gel directly, using X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy (XANES) fitting with model arsenic compounds, we obtain a better understanding of the ability of FB-DGT to measure labile arsenic species in solution. The results presented herein confirm that FB-DGT accumulated labile inorganic and methylated arsenic species. Arsenic species bound to the FB-DGT gel were stable for up to 2 weeks following deployment. However, caution should be applied when interpreting the proportion of As species measured by HPLC-HG-AFS in solution extracted from FB-DGT because the distribution of arsenic species in extracted solutions was found to be modified by the extraction process. Some (~20 %) of arsenate was converted into arsenite, and a significant amount (~25 %) of dimethylarsinic acid (DMAsV) was converted into monomethylarsonic acid (MMAsV) or arsenate (AsV). Only inorganic arsenite (iAsIII) was stable during the extraction process. These findings suggested that, based on the XANES measurement, although As species were quantitatively accumulated in the FB-DGT gel, the FB-DGT technique was still unsuitable for studying As speciation. This is because changes in arsenic speciation were observed to occur during gel extraction, prior to HPLC-HG-AFS measurement, and because the XANES technique is available for routine measurements.
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