This work aimed to evaluate the sorption of atrazine in organic-mineral complexes predominant in tropical soils. The atrazine sample that was used in the experiment had 97% purity. Aliquots of 10 mL of atrazine solutions (0.0; 10.0; 20.0; 40.0; 70.0 and 100.0 mmol L-1) were added to the substrata: humic acids, kaolinite, goethite, ferrihydrite, humic acids+kaolinite, humic acids+goethite and humic acids+ferrihydrite, with the etila acetate being used as extractor. Concentrations of atrazine sorbed were determined by gas chromatography, with an extraction efficiency of 93.67%. The value of Kd found (91.89) for the humic acids was approximately nine times higher than that for kaolinite, goethite and ferrihydrite alone, and about five times higher than that for the mixtures humic acids+kaolinite, humic acids+goethite and humic acids+ferrihydrite. The interactions decreased atrazine sorption by humic acids. The humic acid sorption reduction percentage was 62.93, 65.99 and 64.63% when mixed with kaolinite, goethite and ferrihydrite, respectively.
herbicide; humic acids; clay minerals
