“Switching on” iron in clay minerals

Journal Article
Environmental Science: Nano, vol. 6, iss. 6, pp. 1704-1715, 2019
Authors
A. G. Ilgen, R. K. Kukkadapu, K. Leung, R. E. Washington
Abstract

We discovered a new mechanism explaining why iron in its oxidized form Fe(iii) in clay minerals is reactive only in the presence of trace amounts of its reduced form—Fe(ii).

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