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Published in final edited form as: Appl Geochem. 2020 May;116:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2020.104561. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2020.104561

Table 3.

Solubility constants for Pu(OH)3(s) and Pu3+ hydrolysis constants

Reaction log K0 or βn0 Reference
Pu(OH)3(s) + 3 H+ ⇌ Pu3+ + 3 H2O 15.8 ± 0.8 Felmy et al. (1989)
Pu(OH)3(s)a + 3 H+ ⇌ Pu3+ + 3 H2O 15.8 ± 1.5 NEA-TDB: Lemire et al. (2001), Guillaumont et al. (2003)
Pu3+ + H2O ⇌ PuOH2+ + H+ −6.9 ± 0.3
Pu(OH)3(am) + 3 H+ ⇌ Pu3+ + 3 H2O 14.58 ± 0.5 Cho et al. (2016): from solubility and spectroscopic data
Pu3+ + H2O ⇌ PuOH2+ + H+ −6.18 ± 0.25
Pu(OH)3(s) + 3 H+ ⇌ Pu3+ + 3 H2O 15.1 Cho et al. (2016): Felmy et al. (1989) solubility data used with NEA-TDB log β10 to recalculate log Ks,0
Pu3+ + H2O ⇌ PuOH2+ + H+ −6.9
Pu(OH)3(s) + 3 H+ ⇌ Pu3+ + 3 H2O 14.5 Cho et al. (2016): Felmy et al. (1989) solubility data used with Cho et al. (2016) log β10 to recalculate log Ks,0
Pu3+ + H2O ⇌ PuOH2+ + H+ −6.18 ± 0.25
Pu(OH)3(s)a + 3 H+ ⇌ Pu3+ + 3 H2O 15.8 ± 1.5 ThermoChimie: solubility and first hydrolysis constant from NEA-TDB, second and third hydrolysis constants from Allard et al. (1980)
Pu3+ + H2O ⇌ PuOH2+ + H+ −6.9 ± 0.3
Pu3+ + 2 H2O ⇌ Pu(OH)2+ + 2 H+ −15.9
Pu3+ + 3 H2O ⇌ Pu(OH)30 + 3 H+ −25.3
Pu(OH)3(s)a + 3 H+ ⇌ Pu3+ + 3 H2O 15.8 ± 1.5 Tasi et al. (2018a) solubility and first hydrolysis constant from NEA-TDB, second and third hydrolysis constants from Neck et al. (2007) by analogy with NEA-TDB hydrolysis constants for Am3+
Pu3+ + H2O ⇌ PuOH2+ + H+ −6.9 ± 0.3
Pu3+ + 2 H2O ⇌ Pu(OH)2+ + 2 H+ −15.1 ± 0.7
Pu3+ + 3 H2O ⇌ Pu(OH)30 + 3 H+ −26.2 ± 0.5
a –

Pu(OH)3(s) designated as solid (s) because crystallinity was undetermined in Felmy et al. (1989) study, designated as crystalline (cr) in NEA-TDB compilations