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Potential for formation of methylated thioarsenates in geothermal environments
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ( IF 4.5 ) Pub Date : 2024-10-18 , DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2024.10.012 Ketao Yan, Qinghai Guo, Luxia Wang, Yi Liu, Britta Planer-Friedrich
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ( IF 4.5 ) Pub Date : 2024-10-18 , DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2024.10.012 Ketao Yan, Qinghai Guo, Luxia Wang, Yi Liu, Britta Planer-Friedrich
Geothermal waters typically have elevated arsenic (As) concentrations. Various As species have been identified, including methylated thioarsenates, which present a high environmental and health risk due to high mobility and toxicity. Upon discharge from hot springs, temperature and geogenic sulfide excess decrease, while redox potential increases. The combined effects of those parameters on activities of sulfate-reducing bacteria and methanogens and thereby on extent of As methylation versus thiolation is currently unknown. Here, we incubated sediments from alkaline hot springs and outflow channels at the Tengchong geothermal region in southwestern China, where inorganic and methylated thioarsenates had been detected, at temperatures between 20 to 90 °C with different initial aqueous As and sulfur species. Results from field samples and incubation experiments showed methylated thioarsenates, but no methylated oxyarsenates, implying quantitative thiolation even at low sulfide concentrations. Enrichment cultures derived from one sediment with quantitative formation of dimethyl-dithioarsenate (DMDTA) at 55 °C, showed a dominance of inorganic trithioarsenate at 35 °C and monomethylated thioarsenates at 55 °C when incubated with two other sediments. The rate-limiting step was microbially mediated As methylation from arsenite, which was not observed at 20 °C or >= 75 °C, in contrast to thiolation of already methylated arsenates. Addition of free sulfide and thiosulfate to incubation experiments promoted formation of inorganic or monomethylated high-thiolated arsenates, while sulfate promoted full methylation and formation of DMDTA, probably due to continuous low supply of microbially produced sulfide. Since DMDTA is more mobile and toxic than inorganic and monomethylated thioarsenates, understanding constraints to its formation is especially important for future risk assessment.
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