Abstract
Dissolved alumina can coprecipitate with dissolved silica from seawater enriched with both compounds. This coprecipitation is almost complete within 1h and maintains the concentration of dissolved alumina near naturally occurring oceanic concentrations, well below the alumina concentration of 0.50 ppm A1 found to be stable in filtered Sargasso seawater at 2°C. Only 0.5 ppm Si is necessary to initiate this coprecipitation, which indicates that the concentrations of dissolved alumina that occur in seawater and in interstitial water are a function of the concentration of dissolved silica as well as of the alumina solubility. Dissolved alumina is also quickly removed by solid amorphous silica from solutions of seawater enriched in dissolved alumina and also by several marine sediments in contact with the solution. This process may be an important factor in authigenic mineral formation in marine sediments.
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