Isolation of selenate from selenite, carbonate, phosphate, and arsenate solutions for δ18 O-selenate determination

Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies
Lichao XiaPhilip Larese-Casanova

Abstract

Selenium and oxygen isotope systematics can be useful tools for tracing sources and fate of Se oxyanions in water. In order to measure δ18O values of selenate, SeO42- must first be sequestered from water by precipitation as BaSeO4(s). However, other dissolved oxyanions insoluble with Ba2+ require removal. Dissolved selenate was separated from dissolved selenite, carbonate, phosphate, and arsenate by addition of Ce3+ cations that quantitatively removed these oxyanions by precipitation as insoluble Ce2(SeO3)3(s), Ce2(CO3)3(s), CePO4(s), and CeAsO4(s), respectively. δ18O-selenate (-8.19 ± 0.17 ‰) did not change after four replicates of selenite removal by Ce2(SeO3)3(s) precipitation and Ce3+ removal by cation exchange (-8.20 ± 0.14, -8.32 ± 0.09, -8.17 ± 0.13, and -8.29 ± 0.13 ‰). δ18O-selenate values (-10.86 ± 0.45 ‰) were preserved also when selenate was pre-concentrated on anion exchange resin, quantitatively retrieved by elution, and processed with Ce3+ to remove interfering oxyanions (-10.77 ± 0.07 ‰). The extraction and purification steps developed here successfully isolated dissolved selenate from interfering oxyanions while preserving δ18O-selenate values. This method should be useful for characterizing δ18O-selenate when ...Continue Reading

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