Published online 20 September 2006
Published in Soil Sci Soc Am J 70:1889-1895 (2006)
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2005.0392
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Effects of Increasing Potassium Chloride and Calcium Chloride Ionic Strength on Pesticide Sorption by Potassium- and Calcium-Smectite
Hui Lia,
Brian J. Teppena,
David A. Lairdb,
Cliff T. Johnstonc and
Stephen A. Boyda,*
a Dep. of Crop and Soil Sciences, and Environmental Science and Policy Program, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI 48824
b USDA-ARS, National Soil Tilth Lab., Ames, IA 50011
c Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, Dep. of Agronomy, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN 47907

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Fig. 1. Sorption isotherms of (A) alachlor, (B) atrazine, (C) dichlobenil, and (D) diuron by K+saturated smectite (K-SWy-2) at several KCl ionic strengths.
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Fig. 2. Pesticide sorption coefficients normalized to the sorption by K+saturated smectite (K-SWy-2) from 0.30 M KCl solution at the aqueous relative concentration of 0.05 as a function of ionic strength.
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Fig. 3. Sorption isotherms of (A) alachlor, (B) atrazine, (C) dichlobenil, and (D) diuron by Ca2+saturated smectite (Ca-SWy-2) in 0.005 M and 0.10 M CaCl2 solutions.
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