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A modified test for sour soils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

Norman M. Comber
Norman M. Comber
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, The University, Leeds.
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Extract

It was recently suggested by the writer that the neutral salt test for sourness in soils could be adapted for rapid qualitative purposes by using an alcoholic solution of potassium thiocyanate. This reagent becomes coloured in contact with soils deficient in strong bases, because of the presence of iron among the weak bases which are brought into solution from such soils by neutral salts.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , October 1922 , pp. 370 - 371
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1922

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1 This Journal, 1920, 10.Google Scholar

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