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      Kinetically inert Cu in coastal waters.

      Environmental Science & Technology
      Copper, analysis, chemistry, Humic Substances, Kinetics, Ligands, Water

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          Many studies have shown that Cu and other metals in natural waters are mostly bound by unidentified compounds interpreted to be strong ligands reversibly complexing a given metal. However, commonly applied analytical techniques are not capable of distinguishing strongly but reversibly complexed metal from metal bound in kinetically inert compounds. In this work, we use a modified competitive ligand exchange adsorptive cathodic stripping voltammetry method combined with size fractionation to show that most if not all of the apparently very strongly (log K > or = 13) bound Cu in samples from five New England coastal waters (1-18 nM, 10-60% of total Cu) is actually present as kinetically inert compounds. In three of the five samples examined by ultrafiltration, a significant portion of the 0.2-microm-filtrable inert Cu was retained by a 0.02-microm-pore size filter, suggesting that at least some of the Cu was kinetically inert because it was physically sequestered in colloidal material. The rest of the ambient Cu, and Cu added in titrations, were reversibly bound in complexes that could be modeled as having conditional stability constants of 10(10)-10(13). The Cu-binding ability of these complexes was equivalent to that of seawater containing reasonable concentrations of humic substances from terrestrial sources, approximately 0.15-0.45 mg of C/L. Both the inert compounds and the reversible ligands were important for determining [Cu2+] at ambient Cu levels in our samples.

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          12630466

          Chemistry
          Copper,analysis,chemistry,Humic Substances,Kinetics,Ligands,Water
          Chemistry
          Copper, analysis, chemistry, Humic Substances, Kinetics, Ligands, Water

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