Aluminium arsenate is an inorganic compound with the formula AlAsO4.[2] It is most commonly found as an octahydrate. It is a colourless solid that is produced by the reaction between sodium arsenate and a soluble aluminium salt. Aluminium arsenate occurs naturally as the mineral mansfieldite.[3] Anhydrous form is known as an extremely rare, fumarolic mineral alarsite[4] A synthetic hydrate of aluminium arsenate is produced by hydrothermal method. with the formulation Al2O3·3As2O5·10H2O.[5]
Modification of aluminium orthoarsenate was carried out by heating different samples to different temperatures. Both amorphous and crystalline forms were obtained.[6] The solubility product was determined to be 10−18.06 for aluminium arsenate hydrate of formula AlAsO4·3.5H2O.[1]
Like gallium arsenate and boron arsenate, it adopts the α-quartz-type structure. The high pressure form has a rutile-type structure in which aluminium and arsenic are six-coordinate.
References
^ abFernando L. Pantuzzo, Luciano R.G. Santos, Virginia S.T. Ciminelli "Solubility-product constant of an amorphous aluminum-arsenate phase (AlAsO4·3.5H2O) at 25 °C" Hydrometallurgy
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