“…Fluoride adsorption has been extensively studied with respect to specific soil components kaolinite and bentonite (Anderson, Zelazny, & Bertsch, 1991;Bar-Yosef, Afik, & Rosenberg, 1988;Kau, Smith, & Binning, 1998), aluminium and iron hydroxide minerals (Hiemstra & Van Riemsdijk, 2000;Meeussen, Scheidegger, Hiemstra, VanRiemsdijk, & Borkovec, 1996;Nordin, Sullivan, Phillips, & Casey, 1999) and a binary clay-mineral (kaolinitehaematite) substrate system (Wei et al, 2016). These studies have demonstrated that F − adsorption by individual soil components generally results in increased solution pH, attributable to anion exchange between F − and surface OH − groups.…”