Temperature issues in online extraction of water from plant and soil for stable isotope analysis
Temperature issues in online extraction of water from plant and soil for stable isotope analysis
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从植物和土壤中在线提取水进行稳定同位素分析的温度问题
DOI:
10.1002/rcm.8750
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
2
通讯作者:
Tian Lide
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作者:
Cui Jiangpeng;Tian Lide
Cryogenic vacuum distillation (CVD) and isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) are the traditionally used techniques for the extraction and analysis of water from soil and plants. 1-3 Recently, developments in online extraction and analysis systems, such as induction module cavity ring-down spectroscopy (IM-CRDS), 4-6 have facilitated the rapid extraction of water from solid samples and isotope analysis in 5–10 min per sample. However, there is a poor agreement between IM-CRDS and CVD-IRMS analyses, 4, 6-8 and the reasons are not yet fully understood. Our current knowledge of possible causes includes organic contamination, 4, 8 isotopic heterogeneity of samples4 and incomplete extraction. 9 Extraction temperature has long been recognized as a key factor in CVD. 10-13 This is because water extraction is a procedure of Rayleigh distillation. In general, light isotopes are known to be extracted first. Temperature has a critical impact on the efficiency of distillation and isotopic fractionation may occur if extraction is not conducted completely. Furthermore, multiple water pools exist in both plants and soil. For example, soil holds four fractions of water: gravitational, capillary, hydroscopic and structural water14, 15; while water in plant tissue includes xylem, inter-cellular, intra-cellular, cell wall and organelle-constrained water. 16, 17 Different fractions of water have distinct isotopic ratios and sensitivities to extraction temperature. 1, 2, 10, 12, 14, 17 The fraction of extracted tightly bound water rises with an increase of extraction temperature. 12, 14 The impact of extraction temperature in CVD on isotopic ratios has been evaluated in many studies and the temperature employed in CVD is often near 100 C. 1, 3, 15 Recently, higher CVD extraction temperatures (eg 200 C) have been recommended, 17, 18 especially for clay-rich soils. 13, 19 However, two important unknowns with IM-CRDS are the following:(1) What are the extraction temperatures under different heating methods?(2) How do different extraction temperatures affect returned isotopic ratios? To date, the only report is by Lazarus et al6 who found that the maximum extraction temperature is about 133 C for stems in the IM-CRDS method. In this letter, we report on the measurements of the extraction temperatures of different heating methods in IM-CRDS and compare them with the extraction temperatures that are widely used in CVD. We also evaluate the impact of extraction temperatures on isotopic ratios. The IM-CRDS system consists of an L2130-i wavelengthscanned cavity ring-down spectroscopy isotopic water analyzer, an induction module and a vacuum pump (all from Picarro Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA). The heating methods in the IM-CRDS user's manual are called “recipes.” 20 The recipes control the rate and duration of induction heating through a second-order polynomial curve: y= ax2+ bx+ c, where y is the heating power and x is the time (in seconds). Users can customize the heating method by modifying the values of a, b and c and the heating duration. Because the recipes specify heating power rather than temperature, one cannot directly obtain the extraction temperature of samples in the IM-CRDS system. Here we measured the changes in extraction temperature with time for eight standard recipes (low temperature, high temperature, leaves, thick leaves, woody stems, clay, clay loam and sandy loam) and four customized recipes with constant heating power (constant_c_10, constant_c_15, constant_c_20 and constant_c_40)(see Figure 1 caption for parameter settings of each recipe). In temperature monitoring experiments, the bottom of a glass vial was removed and a …