Encyclopedia of Earth: Secondary arsenic minerals in the environment
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Introduction
Secondary arsenic minerals are defined as forms of arsenic that arise during hydrothermal alteration or weathering of primary minerals. In the environmental sciences, the
weathering of primary arsenic-bearing ore minerals under near subsurface and surface conditions is important and widely studied. Numerous site-specific studies have been completed documenting the importance of the formation of secondary arsenic minerals in attenuating dissolved arsenic during the weathering of primary arsenic minerals.
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