Sorption and Desorption of Cadmium by Different Fractions of Biosolids-Amended Soils
Ganga M. Hettiarachchi*,a,c,
James A. Ryana,
Rufus L. Chaneyb and
Cherie M. La Fleura
a Remediation and Containment Branch, Land Remediation and Pollution Control Division, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, USEPA, 26 West Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45268
b Animal Manure and Byproducts Lab, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, USDA-ARS-ANRI, Beltsville, MD 20705
c Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

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Fig. 1. Fractionation scheme used to evaluate the relative contribution of different soil fractions on Cd sorptiondesorption.
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Fig. 2. Effects of biosolids on Cd sorption at pH 5.5 in 0.01 M Ca(NO3)2 solution.
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Fig. 3. Effects of biosolids and organic carbon removal on Cd sorption at pH 5.5 in 0.01 M Ca(NO3)2 solution. LC, limed digested; OC, organic carbon.
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Fig. 4. Effects of biosolids and easily reducible Fe/Mn removal on Cd sorption at pH 5.5 in 0.01 M Ca(NO3)2 solution. LC, limed digested.
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Fig. 5. Effects of biosolids, easily reducible Fe/Mn, organic carbon, and Fe oxide removal on Cd sorption at pH 5.5 in 0.01 M Ca(NO3)2 solution. LC, limed digested; OC, organic carbon.
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Fig. 6. Effects of removal of different fractions from soils with or without biosolids on Cd desorption at pH 5.5 in 0.01 M Ca(NO3)2 solution.
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