Sorption of strontium onto bacteriogenic iron oxides.

Bacteriogenic iron oxides (BIOS) were obtained from a dilute, circumneutral groundwater seep, characterized with respect to mineralogy, and examined for their ability to sorb aqueous Sr2+. BIOS were composed of microbial sheaths encrusted in 2-line ferrihydrite. Sorption experiments indicated that Sr remained completely unbound at pH < 4.