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Analytical results from lightning discharge experiments focusing on interactions between nitrogen oxides and pyrite

The dataset includes measurements of dissolved and gaseous nitrogen oxides (nitrite, nitrate, NO(g)) generated by lightning discharge in a glass container partially filled with water, as well as measurements of dissolves sulfate and iron liberated from pyrite that has interacted with the nitrogen oxides. The lightning discharge experiments were carried out with either anoxic gas mixture (5% or 20% CO2 and the rest N2) or modern air. Lightning has long been identified as a source of reactive nitrogen species to Earth's early biosphere. These experiments were therefore conducted in order to test how this reactive nitrogen would interact with minerals at the Earth's surface. The results reveal that lightning-generated nitrogen oxides could have contributed to a small degree to oxidative weathering.

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Date (Creation)
2024-05-20
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608240
Originator
  University of St Andrews - Eva Elisabeth Stueeken
Originator
  University of St Andrews - Annabel Long
Originator
  University of St Andrews - Abu Baidya
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maintenance and update frequency
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Nitrogen oxides
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • Archaean
  • Lightning
dataCentre
  • NGDC Deposited Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
2022-08-01
End date
2024-03-01

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  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
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nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
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non geographic dataset

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Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
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No

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Pass
No
Statement
The experimental setup was similar to that of Barth et al. (2023, Nature Geoscience). Pyrite was added to the reaction flask, along with 21ml of deoxygenated DI-water. Nitrite, nitrate and nitric oxide gas, as well as sulfate and iron were measured over time by extracting 3ml of liquid every 6 minutes with a syringe through a septum. The analyses were conduced with an ion chromatograph for nitrite, nitrate and sulfate. Iron was measured by spectrophotometry. Nitric oxide gas was measured with an quadrupole mass spectrometer. Analytical details are described in Long et al. (in review). The aqueous data were corrected for the volume change that occurred as fluid was extracted. All experiments were carried out in triplicates. Blank experiments were conducted where the spark generator was turned off.
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190ccd7d-ccf4-2478-e063-0937940a7dff XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Hierarchy level name
non geographic dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-13
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608240
 
 

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