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Sulfur K-edge XANES Spectroscopy as a Tool for Understanding Sulfur Dynamics in Soil Organic Matter

Dawit Solomon*,a, Johannes Lehmanna and Carmen Enid Martínezb

a Dep. of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell Univ., Bradfield and Emerson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853
b Dep. of Crop and Soil Sciences, 418 ASI Building, The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA 16802



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Fig. 1. Sulfur K-edge XANES spectra (before deconvolution and nonlinear least squares fitting) recorded directly from the clay (Wushwush) and silt (Munesa) size particles and humic substance extracts from these size separates.

 


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Fig. 2. Comparisons of selected regions of S K-edge XANES spectra from the clay (Wushwush) and silt (Munesa) size separate and 0.1 M NaOH/0.4 M NaF extracts of these separates.

 


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Fig. 3. Nonlinear least square fit of experimental S K-edge XANES spectrum showing several oxidation states of S analysis for humic substances extracted from clay size separates (<2 µm) of a soil from Wushwush, Ethiopia. AT1 and AT2 are Arctangent 1 and 2. G1 to G5 are Gaussian Peak 1 to 5.

 


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Fig. 4. Stacked S K-edge (2472 eV) XANES spectra for humic substances extracted from clay (<2 µm) and silt size (2–20 µm) separates of soils from Wushwush, Ethiopia.

 


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Fig. 5. Stacked S K-edge (2472 eV) XANES spectra for humic substances extracted from clay (<2 µm) and silt size (2–20 µm) separates of soils from Munesa, Ethiopia.

 





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