Sensitivity of Soil Manganese Oxides
Drying and Storage Cause Reduction
Donald S. Rossa,
Heidi C. Halesa,
Grace C. Shea-McCarthyb and
Antonio Lanzirottib
a Dep. of Plant and Soil Sciences, Hills Bldg., Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0082
b Univ. of Chicago/CARS, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY 11973-5000

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Fig. 1. The Standard Cr Net Oxidation Test on field-moist soils under long-term storage at 3°C. The Lordstown-II results are shown as 1/10 of actual
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Fig. 2. The effect of air drying (dark treatment) on extractable Mn and the Standard Cr Net Oxidation Test. Error bars represent ± SE
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Fig. 3. The effect of air-drying treatment (dark, light, or in plastic vials in the dark) on extractable Mn and the Standard Cr Net Oxidation Test in the Subsupersoil. Error bars represent ± SE
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Fig. 4. Short-term air-drying effect on the Standard Cr Net Oxidation Test and the moisture content in the Denu soil. Subsamples were remoistened to original water content at 24, 48, and 72 h. Error bars represent ± SE
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Fig. 5. Comparison of successive Cr oxidation tests on field-moist and air-dried samples of the Lordstown-II and Denu soils (all results for the Denu soil are multiplied by 10). Samples were dried 1 wk and the water content was 3.7% for the Lordstown-II and 0.9% for the Denu. Error bars represent the SE
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Fig. 6. XANES spectra of the Subsupersoil soil comparing recent and long-term dried samples. Modeled fits are a linear mixture of the recently air-dried spectra and either aqueous Mn(II) or manganite
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Fig. 7. XANES spectra of Hardhack soil comparing recent and long-term dried samples. Modeled fits are a linear mixture of the recently air-dried spectra and either aqueous Mn(II) or manganite
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Fig. 8. XANES spectra of Mn standards. The synthetic birnessite is largely Mn(IV) but could contain as much as 20% Mn(III)
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