Re: Iron sulfide's dissolution/precipitation constant

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March 25, 2002
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Dear sir:
   I have a question about the PHREEQC. Refer to a report: User's guide to
PHREEQC - a computer program for
speciation, reaction-path advective-transport, and inverse geochemical
calculations. by David L. Parkhurst, 1995,
USGS Water -resources investigations report 95-4227.
   My question is about the dissolution/precipitation equilibrium constant
of iron sulfide (FeS).  In the PHREEQC's
database- phreeqc.dat and waterq4f.dat,  FeS(ppt)    FeS + H+ = Fe+2 + HS-,
logK = -3.915. Can you tell me where
the value come from?
   According to Morse et al.(1987, The chemistry of the hydrogen sulfide
and iron sulfide systems in natural waters,
Earth-science reviews, 24, 1-42.)  and Davison (1991, solubility of iron
sulfide, Aqut.Sci, 53, 309-329) logK = -2.95.
In my own data (in PhD thesis of National Taiwan University), I survey over
100 data from wells and references,
show logK is about -2.9 ~ -3.0.  Because my data against USGS's phreeqc
database, my adivser asked me why the
USGS's phreeqc.dat (1995) didn't follow the results from Morse et al.(1987)
and Davison(1991). And where the data
logK = -3.915 come from.
    Thank you very much
Wen-fu Chen
National Taiwan University