Soils as source and sink of phosphine

Eismann, Frank; Glindemann, Dietmar; Bergmannt, Armin; Kuschk, Peter

doi:10.1016/s0045-6535(97)00117-3

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“…This is very low compared with their phosphate content, which is generally much higher. Eismann et al (1997) simulated phosphine production and consumption by soil samples in the laboratory, showing that biological metabolites such as sulfide, glucose, formate, and pyrogallol can accelerate the release of phosphine from the soil. Generally, however, the consumption of phosphine by soil is faster than Devai et al (1999) possible production.…”

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“…Phosphine is rare in the earth's environment because it is easily oxidized by air (WHO, 1988), and is difficult to produce. New analytical developments made it possible to detect small amounts of phosphine in soil, sludge and biogases in the environment (Devai et al, 1984(Devai et al, , 1988Devai and DeLaune, 1995;Eismann et al, 1997;Gassmann and Glindemann, 1993;Gassmann and Schorn, 1993;Gassmann, 1994;Glindemann and Bergmann, 1995;Glindemann et al, 1996a;Han et al, 2000;Iverson, 1968;Liu et al, 1999). Tsubota (1959) found not phosphine but phosphites as reduced phosphorus compounds in a Japanese paddy field.…”

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“…Several independent reports claim that phosphine can be produced by biochemical processes in the laboratory (Cao et al, 2000;Devai et al, 1984Devai et al, , 1988Eismann et al, 1997;Gassmann and Glindemann, 1993;Iverson, 1968;Jenkins et al, 2000). Most of these results have been summarized in a review (Roels and Verstraete, 2001).…”

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Phosphine in soils, sludges, biogases and atmospheric implications—a review

Glindemann

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Liu³

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Ecological Engineering

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This is a review of previously published and unpublished results of research into the occurrence of phosphine (PH 3 ) in the environment in the form of matrix bound phosphine in soils, aquatic sediments and sludges (range ng kg −1 to g kg −1 ), free phosphine in formed biogases (range ng m −3 to g m −3 ) and in the atmosphere (range pg m −3 to ng m −3 ). The reviewed data support the hypothesis of the existence of a small gaseous link in the phosphorus cycle, which could become important over the long term.Matrix-bound phosphine in soils can be interpreted as a stationary state concentration of phosphine between production and consumption. This phosphine turnover within the soil may be important even if the stationary state concentration (matrix-bound phosphine) is small. Under such circumstances, a slow migration process of phosphine in the interstitial gas sphere of soils is possible. Such a process would influence the balance of phosphorus in agricultural and wetland soil.The detection of easily oxidizable phosphine as a ubiquitous trace gas in the atmosphere can be interpreted as the residue of an important turnover of phosphine between widely distributed emission sources and sinks such as soils and sediments. The atmosphere can carry gaseous phosphorus to remote places.

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Phosphine in soils, sludges, biogases and atmospheric implications—a review

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Ecological Engineering

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“…Glindemann [8] detected the existence of phosphine in the atmosphere. He also tackled the formation mechanism [9] . Liu et al 1) detected phosphine in sediment samples and in ambient air adjacent to a paddy field near Beijing, challenging the previous unsuccessful attempts to identify phosphine in paddy field emissions.…”

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Emission sources of atmospheric phosphine and simulation of phosphine formation

Liu¹

2000

Sc. China Ser. B-Chem.

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Preliminary results on the emission sources of atmospheric phosphine and the types of its precursors in the environment are described. Sunlight plays a more important role than oxygen in its degradation. The vertical profile of phosphine levels in ambient air has been measured. Laboratory simulation of phosphine formation under anaerobic conditions shows that addition of chicken manure, bone powder, or lecithin leads to an increment in phosphine emission. Phosphine can also be adsorbed to soil matrix and thus can survive in soil and sediment. Adsorption and light degradation explain the low ambient levels of phosphine.

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“…Some tentative experimental results indicated that addition of chicken manure, bone powder, or lecithin can lead to an increment of phosphine emission (Eismann et al, 1997a;Cao et al, 2000). Moreover, Eismann et al (1997b) found a correlation between the evolution of phosphine and the production of methane/hydrogen sulfide during anaerobic fermentation of fresh swine manure.…”

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