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EC number: 233-596-8 | CAS number: 10257-55-3
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Takinginto account(i) the rapid dissociation of calcium sulfite and decomposition of sulfites upon dissolution in environmental solutions, including soil porewater, and respective participation in the natural calcium and sulfur cycle, (ii) ubiquitousness of calcium and inorganic sulfur substances in soil, (iii) essentiality of calcium and sulfur, and (iv) the lack of a potential for bioaccumulation and toxicity to aquatic organisms, the hazard potential ofcalcium sulfite in soil can be expected to be low.
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Abiotic and biotic processes determining the fate of calcium sulfite in soils
Calcium sulfite dissociates into sulfite anions and the respective calcium cations upon contact with soil moisture. Whereas calcium ions are essential for plant and animal metabolism, do not bioaccumulate and underlie homeostatic control, sulfite anions are unstable under environmentally relevant conditions, are rapidly transformed into other sulfur species and ultimately become part of the global sulfur cycle. Therefore, terrestrial toxicity of calcium sulfite is not expected due to its inherent physico-chemical properties.
(a) Calcium generally has a high mobility and, except under strongly alkaline conditions, occurs in solution as dissociated Ca2+ ions. Concentrations generally increase with stream order as a result of increasing contact time between water and soil or rock. The most common Ca-bearing minerals in sedimentary rocks, calcite and dolomite, weather on contact with acid solutions, typically carbonic acid (H2CO) derived from the dissolution of atmospheric CO in rain, releasing Ca or Ca and Mg, respectively. Solutions of most soil types contain an excess of Ca, which constitutes more than 90% of the total cation concentration; Ca, is, therefore, the most important cation in governing the solubility of trace elements in soil (Salminen et al. 2005). Conclusively, calcium cations become part of the global calcium cycle.
(b)Sulfites are unstable in the environment, including in topsoil, and become part of the natural sulfur cycle. Under oxygen-rich conditions, sulfites are rapidly oxidized catalytically by (air) oxygen or by microbial action to sulfate. Microbial oxidation of reduced sulfur species including elemental sulfur (S), sulfide (HS-), sulfite (SO32-) and thiosulfate (S2O32-) is an energetically favorable reaction carried out by a wide range of organisms, i.e. sulfur oxidizing microorganisms (SOM) resulting in ultimate transformation into sulfate (SO42-, Simon and Kroneck, 2013).
In highly reduced (water-logged) soils, reduction to sulfides may take place with subsequent formation of solid-phase minerals and metal sulfides of very low bioavailability/solubility, including FeS, ZnS, PbS and CdS (Lindsay, 1979, Finster et al., 1998). Thus, under anoxic conditions, sulfate is readily reduced to sulfide by sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRM) that are common in anaerobic environments. Other sulfur-containing microbial substrates such as dithionite (S2O42-), thiosulfates (S2O32-) or sulfite (SO32-) may also be anaerobically utilised, ultimately resulting in the reduction to sulfide (H2S).
In sum, a significant set of microbial populations grows by disproportionation of sulfite, thiosulfate or elemental sulfur, ultimately yielding sulfate or sulfide (Simon and Kroneck 2013 and references therein; Janssen et al. 1996, Bak and Cypionka, 1987).
Therefore, sulfites may reasonably be considered chemically unstable under most environmental conditions, are rapidly transformed into other sulfur species and ultimately become part of the global sulfur cycle.
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