Biogenic dissolution of a soil cerium-phosphate mineral
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Abstract
The productivity of many terrestrial ecosystems is controlled or limited by phosphorus bioavailability. Within these ecosystems, nearly all of the bioavailable phosphate is ultimately derived via the weathering of apatite [Ca<sub>5</sub>(PO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub> (OH,F,Cl)]. Highly insoluble lanthanide phosphate minerals form during apatite weathering and are important secondary phosphorus repositories in soils. Prior studies indicate that these phases can be dissolved via biologically-mediated pathways. However, mechanistic understanding of biotically- and abiotically-mediated dissolution mechanisms is lacking. We tested the impact of biogenic substances ubiquitous in soils, namely oxalate, ascorbate, citrate, and humic acids, as well as the commercial chelating agent EDTA, on the dissolution of rhabdophane [CePO<sub>4</sub> · H<sub>2</sub>O], a representative of a large class of soil phosphate minerals. We show that these compounds can facilitate the dissolution of rhabdophane at 3 < pH < 8 and result in the non-stoichiometric release of Ce<sup>3+</sup><sub>(aq)</sub> and PO<sub>4</sub><sup>3-</sup><sub>(aq)</sub>. Release of Ce<sup>3+</sup><sub>(aq)</sub> and PO<sub>4</sub><sup>3-</sup><sub>(aq)</sub> is a function of ligand type and pH, except for EDTA, whose impact is not pH dependent. With the exception of oxalate reacted at pH 3, the effectiveness of EDTA surpasses that of any other ligand in releasing Ce<sup>3+</sup><sub>(aq)</sub> from the CePO<sub>4</sub> · H<sub>2</sub>O surface. Speciation calculations are consistent with mineral dissolution through formation of aqueous Ce<sup>3+</sup>-EDTA complexes. Mineral dissolution in the presence of oxalate at low pH likely involves concomitant proton and ligand attack of the mineral surface. In these experiments, a fast release of Ce<sup>3+</sup><sub>(aq)</sub> is followed by a sharp decrease in solution Ce<sup>3+</sup><sub>(aq)</sub> concentration, consistent with precipitation of a Ce phase. In the presence of ligands other than EDTA and oxalate, no accumulation of Ce<sup>3+</sup> occurred in solution due to the precipitation of CeO<sub>2(s)</sub> on the rhabdophane surface. CeO<sub>2</sub> may be responsible for the observed oxidation of ascorbate, as it has been reported for catechol (Cervini-Silva and Banfield, 2003). Our results indicate that rhabdophane dissolution is controlled either by strong ligand complexation of Ce<sup>3+</sup><sub>(aq)</sub> or by sequestration of Ce<sup>4+</sup> ions as CeO<sub>2 (s)</sub>, effectively increasing the mineral solubility. This work shows that interactions between organics, CePO<sub>4</sub> · H<sub>2</sub>O, and CeO<sub>2(s)</sub> imply potentially important linkages among the cerium, phosphorus, and organic carbon cycles in soil.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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