Binding Ability of Inorganic Major Components of Sea Water towards some Classes of Ligands, Metal and Organometallic Cations

Abstract

A review. The "seawater chem. system" can be thought of as a heterogeneous multi-component soln. whose aq. phase, which also contains particulate matter and colloids, is in contact with sediments and the atm. Most biogeochem. processes occur in surface seawater and involve dissolved and particulate org. matter and nutrients, as well as essential trace metals. The most abundant solutes in seawater are major and minor ions at relatively const. concns. Due to their abundance, the major ions cause seawater to have a very high concn. of pos. and neg. charges, which can det. electrostatic interactions with each other and with other acid-base systems present in the soln. [on SciFinder(R)]