Sorption of Strontium onto Bacteriogenic Iron Oxides
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bacteriogenic iron oxides (BIOS) were obtained from a dilute, circumneutral groundwater seep, characterized with respect to mineralogy, and examined for their ability to sorb aqueous Sr2+. BIOS were composed of microbial sheaths encrusted in 2-line ferrihydrite. Sorption experiments indicated that Sr remained completely unbound at pH < 4.5, but sorption increased with increasing pH (maximum of 95% at pH > 7.6). EXAFS analysis of Sr-loaded BIOS failed to elucidate whether Sr sorption occurred on sites specific to the mineral or microbial fraction, but indicated that sorption likely occurred by outer-sphere complexation between BIOS and hydrated Sr2+. Sorption experiments showed that at low ionic strength (I = 0.001 M), sorption followed a Langmuir isotherm (S(max) = 3.41 mol Sr (g of Fe)(1-), K(ads) = 1.26). At higher ionic strength (I = 0.1 M), there was significant inhibition of Sr sorption (S(max) = 1.06 mol Sr (g of Fe)(1-), K(ads) = 1.23), suggesting that sorption to BIOS occurs by outer-sphere complexation. The results suggest that, under dilute circumneutral conditions, BIOS deposits should efficiently sorb dissolved Sr from groundwater flow systems where such deposits exist. This finding has particular relevance to sites impacted by radioactive 90Sr groundwater contamination.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".