| Abstract: | Al-substitution in Fe-oxides This article resumes the present knowledge on Al-substitution in Fe (III)oxides. Al-substitution is known for goethite, hematite, lepidocrocite, magnetite and maghemite. The extent of substitution is mineral specific and varies for different soil environments for which it may have some indicator value. Al-substituted Fe-oxides are easily to synthesize. A number of characteristics of the synthetic samples have been measured. The result was that most of the changes in characteristics except the unit cell size is more an indirect effect of Al-substitution because Al in the system also affects crystallinity. Crystallinity will, however, also be strongly influenced by other conditions during crystallization. Therefore, thermal behaviour, X-ray line intensity and width, magnetization, dissolution, OH-content, IR absorption characteristic etc. depend more directly on crystallinity than on Al-substitution. The variation of these characteristics for soil iron oxides is essentially unknown so far. |
