RELEASE AND FIXATION OF POTASSIUM IN DIFFERENT SIZE FRACTIONS OF SOME CANADIAN SOILS AS RELATED TO THEIR MINERALOGY

1963 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. MacLean ◽  
J. E. Brydon
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
Ammonium Acetate ◽  
Exchangeable Potassium ◽  
Coarse Silt ◽  
Brown Forest Soil ◽  
Average Amount ◽  
Fine Silt ◽  
Canadian Soils ◽  
Total Potassium ◽  
Medium Silt

The average amount of non-exchangeable potassium removed by H-resin and boiling 1 N HNO3 from the clay in eleven Canadian soils was about twice that in the fine silt, about four times that in the medium silt, and about eleven times that in the coarse silt and sand. Continuous leaching with 0.01 N HCl also removed four times as much potassium from the clay as from the medium silt. The amounts released were usually less from the clay of four Podzols than from the clays of a Brown Chernozemic, a Brown Podzolic, a Brown Forest, and three Dark Grey Gleysolic soils.The percentage of total potassium released from K-bearing minerals by the above procedures was usually in the following order: feldspar < illite < muscovite < biotite.Although fixation of added potassium against extraction with ammonium acetate usually decreased with increasing particle-size, there was considerable fixation in the fine and medium silts. The clays of two Dark Grey Gleysolic and a Brown Forest soil fixed the highest amounts of potassium.Differences in the release and fixation of potassium were not related to the contents of feldspar, illite, vermiculite and mixed-layer minerals in the clays, nor to the amounts of feldspar and mica in the non-clay fractions.

scholarly journals Dust Particle Size and Statistical Parameters

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-93
Author(s):  
Noor Al-Dousari ◽  
Modi Ahmed ◽  
Ali Al-Dousari ◽  
Musaad Al-Daihani ◽  
Murahib Al-Elaj
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
Fine Sand ◽  
Coarse Sand ◽  
Optical Methods ◽  
Size Analysis ◽  
Coarse Silt ◽  
Statistical Parameters ◽  
Fine Silt

AbstractGrain ‘size’ can be specified and measured in several different ways. All methods of grain size determination have blemishes, and the choice of the most appropriate method is governed by the nature of the sample and the use to which the data are placed. Four main methods are currently used for size analysis of sands: (a) sieving; (b) settling tube analysis; (c) electro-optical methods, including Coulter Counter analysis and laser granulometry; and (d) computerized image analysis. The classification of the particle size distribution of Kuwait dust was mapped according to the parameters proposed by Folk And Ward (1957) which were widely used for quantitative comparisons between natural grain size distribution and the lognormal distribution that shows better sorted sediments have lower values of σ1. Maps of the distribution of dust in Kuwait were obtained that included: fine sand (F.S.), Coarse sand (C.S), Medium Sand (M.S), Very Fine Sane (V.F.S), Very Coarse Silt (V.C.Silt), Coarse Silt (C.Silt), Medium Silt (M.Silt), Fine Silt (F.Silt), Very Fine Silt (V.F.Silt), in addition to that, the deposition percentage of Clay, Sand, mud (silt plus clay) and silt were provided.

scholarly journals Fixation of potassium by soil samples under various conditions

1965 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-206
Author(s):  
Armi Kaila
Keyword(s):  
Room Temperature ◽  
Ammonium Acetate ◽  
Clay Fraction ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
Soil Reaction ◽  
Soil Drying ◽  
Exchangeable Potassium ◽  
Heavy Clay ◽  
Mineral Soils ◽  
Total Potassium

The fixation of added potassium under various conditions was studied using soil samples collected from three layers of ten mineral soils. The type of soil ranged from finesand to heavy clay, the soil reaction from pH 3.3 to pH 6.4 (in 0.01 M CaCl2), and the total potassium content from 1.99 to 3.41 per cent. The fixation against an extraction with neutral ammonium acetate distinctly depended on the conditions used for the application of potassium: on the average, without drying the samples fixed during one hour somewhat more than 80 per cent of the amount fixed during 18 hours, when the samples were treated with KCI-solutions corresponding to 2.5 me K/100 g soil. Drying the suspension at 80°C resulted in a fixation 1.2 to 4.1 times as high as that under the »wet» conditions within one hour. The results of these two methods were not particularly closely correlated (r = 0.73***). The results of the »dry» method were found to be of the same order as the fixation of potassium in samples incubated for three months at room temperature. The results of the »dry» fixation were positively correlated with the pH (r = 0.75***) and negatively correlated with the contents of organic carbon (r = —0.63***) and exchangeable potassium (r = —0.40*), but they were not correlated with the contents of clay or the acid soluble potassium. Under the »wet» conditions the relative fixation generally decreased with an increase in the application of potassium, but there were samples which fixed a rather low but almost equal portion of all the applications from 0.625 to 40 me K/100 g soil. The fixation from the highest addition was correlated with the clay fraction

ORGANIC MATTER DISTRIBUTION WITH PARTICLE-SIZE IN SURFACE HORIZONS OF SOME SOMBRIC SOILS IN VANCOUVER ISLAND

1980 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 583-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. BROERSMA ◽  
L. M. LAVKULICH
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
Organic Matter ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Total Organic Matter ◽  
Coarse Silt ◽  
Matter Distribution ◽  
Fine Silt ◽  
Wet Sieving ◽  
Organic Matter Distribution

The surface horizons of some Sombric Brunisols and Podzols were fractionated to determine the distribution of the organo-mineral complexes. The soils were dispersed in water using ultrasonics and fractionated by wet sieving and the continuous flow supercentrifuge. The amounts of organic matter and the surface area of each fraction were determined. The weight of organic matter per unit of surface area increased with increasing size of soil separates. A considerable amount of organic matter is associated with the coarser fractions, with 5, 12 and 49% of the total organic matter being associated with the sand, coarse silt and fine silt fractions, respectively.

scholarly journals Particle size partitioning of metals in humus horizons of two small erosional landforms in the middle Protva basin – a comparative study

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 260-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga A. Samonova ◽  
Elena N. Aseyeva
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
Mixed Forest ◽  
Coarse Sand ◽  
Particle Sizes ◽  
Coarse Silt ◽  
Fine Silt ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Size Fractions ◽  
Particle Size Fractions ◽  
Humus Horizons

Partitioning of metals in soil particles of various size classes has been receiving greater significance due to the necessity to predict the behaviour and pathways of the potentially toxic elements in the environment. In this study the analysis of metals’ distribution in various particle size fractions was performed to characterize and compare geochemical features of the topsoil horizons of two small erosional landforms located in uncontaminated area of the central part of European Russia (the Middle Protva basin, mixed forest zone). The landforms represent two typical lithological types of gullies in the study area. Soil samples were fractionated and the concentrations of Fe, Mn, Ti, Zr, Ni, Co, Cr, Zn, Cu, Pb were determined in five particle size fractions: 1–0.25, 0.25-0.05, 0.05−0.01, 0.01–0.001 and <0.001 mm. The metals’ concentrations and their distribution in various particle sizes were found to be related to gully litho-type. The contribution of the clay to the total amount of metals was the greatest for Mn, Zn, Ni and Co in both systems. The highest mass loading for Ti, Zr and Cr came from the coarse silt, while for Cu and Pb it was made by different particle size fractions: the medium and fine silt or the coarse silt. The highest contribution of Fe also came from different fractions, either from the coarse sand or the clay depending on the system.

scholarly journals Forms and Dynamics of Soil Potassium in Acid Soil in the Wolaita Zone of Southern Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mesfin Kassa ◽  
Wassie Haile ◽  
fassile kebede
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ammonium Acetate ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Land Use Type ◽  
Exchangeable Potassium ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Grazing Land ◽  
Soil Potassium ◽  
Crop Land ◽  
Land Use Types

Quantity-intensity characteristics are among conventional approaches for studying potassium dynamics and its availability; this was assessed to determine availability in four districts: namely, Sodo Zuria, Damot Gale, Damot Sore, and Boloso Sore at three different land use type viz., enset-coffee, crop land, and grazing land. There was water soluble, ammonium acetate, nitric acid extractable potassium, exchangeable potassium, and non-exchangeable potassium studied in soil samples, which were collected from 0-20 cm depth of each land type. The study revealed that water soluble and ammonium acetate extractable potassium concentrations ranged from 0.04 to 0.42 cmolKg-1 soils enset-coffee and grazing land use types, respectively. The study showed that exchangeable potassium constituted the highest proportion of available potassium, while the proportion of water soluble potassium was found to be the lowest. In this study, non-exchangeable potassium concentrations varied from 0.10 to 0.04cmolKg-1soils for enset-coffee, and crop and grazing land use type. Furthermore, available potassium and exchangeable potassium concentrations were positively correlated with OC(r=0.95***), cation exchange capacity, and sand and clay(r=0.98***). In addition, the K dynamics as impacted by land use types found that the highest change in exchangeable potassium (0.31cmolkg-1soils) and potential buffering capacity (1.79cmolkg-1soils) were noted in crop land use types, whereas the lowest change(1.26cmolkg-1 soils) was observed in the enset-coffee system, The varying properties, potassium status, dynamic and land use type of soils identified in the study areas provided adequate information to design soil potassium management options and further research about the soil in each site. Therefore, application of site specific soil fertility management practices and research can improve soil potassium status and quantity intensity parameters to sustain crop productive soils.

RELEASE OF NON-EXCHANGEABLE SOIL POTASSIUM BY RESIN-EQUILIBRATION AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR CROP GROWTH

1962 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Barber ◽  
B. C. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Linear Regression ◽  
Ammonium Acetate ◽  
Cation Exchange Resin ◽  
Yield Response ◽  
Exchangeable Potassium ◽  
Quadratic Regression ◽  
Potassium Fertilizer ◽  
Crop Response ◽  
Soil Potassium ◽  
The Difference

The non-exchangeable potassium released by soil after equilibration with cation-exchange resin was determined by extraction of the mixture with neutral ammonium acetate at room temperature and compared with a similar extraction in the absence of resin. The difference obtained following a 2-day equilibration period was called moderately-available potassium.Simple linear regression of yield on exchangeable potassium or exchangeable plus moderately-available potassium accounted for only 16 and 27 per cent respectively of the variability in yield response of corn, wheat, oats and potatoes to potassium fertilizer in the field. Multiple linear regression of yield on exchangeable and moderately-available potassium accounted for an average of 37 per cent of the variation in crop response; but a multiple quadratic regression of Log (100-per cent yield) on exchangeable and moderately-available potassium accounted for an average of 56 per cent of the variability in Log (100-per cent yield). Multiple quadratic regression of absolute yield or per cent yield on exchangeable and moderately-available potassium accounted for 46 and 50 per cent, respectively, of the variability in crop response to potassium fertilizer.

POTASSIUM-SUPPLYING POWER OF SOME CANADIAN SOILS

1961 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. MacLean
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Resin ◽  
Initial Level ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Exchangeable Potassium ◽  
K Uptake ◽  
Soil Potassium ◽  
Surface Samples ◽  
Canadian Soils ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Exchangeable Form

The amounts of exchangeable potassium in surface samples of 11 Canadian soils were significantly correlated with uptake of potassium by plants in the greenhouse. Per cent K-saturation and water-soluble potassium were indicative of the percentage of K-uptake that was derived from soil potassium in exchangeable form at the time of seeding.Amounts of non-exchangeable potassium extracted from the soils by repeated boiling in 1 N HNO3, by H-saturated exchange resin, and by continuous leaching with 0.01 N HCl were significantly correlated with each other and with the amounts of this form of potassium removed by plants.Following cropping, release of non-exchangeable potassium to exchangeable form during moist incubation of the samples for 112 days was slight. When samples containing different levels of exchangeable potassium were incubated moist for 13 months and then wetted and dried five times, potassium tended to be released to exchangeable form or converted to non-exchangeable form depending on initial level established. The degree of K-saturation at which potassium in six Ontario soils would be expected to be at equilibrium was estimated by regression to be 1.21 per cent. There was evidence that the degree of K-saturation for equilibrium in a Brown soil from Saskatchewan was at least 4.5 per cent.

An RP-HPLC-UV Method with SPE for Cefotaxime in All-in-One Total Parenteral Nutritional Admixtures: Application to Stability Studies

2013 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shahid Iqbal ◽  
Mohd Baidi Bahari ◽  
Yusrida Darwis ◽  
Muhammad Zahid Iqbal ◽  
Amer Hayat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
Mobile Phase ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Ammonium Acetate ◽  
Stability Studies ◽  
Rp Hplc ◽  
Accuracy And Precision ◽  
Degradation Rates ◽  
High Concentrations ◽  
Spe Method

Abstract A simple and selective RP-HPLC-UV method with SPE was developed and validated for the quantification of cefotaxime in all-in-one total parenteral nutrition (AIO-TPN) admixtures. Chromatographic separation was achieved on a 5 μm particle size C18 DB column (250 × 4.6 mm id) using the mobile phase ammonium acetate (25 mM, pH 4.0)–50% acetonitrile in methanol (80 + 20, v/v). The flow rate was 0.9 mL/min and the detection wavelength was 254 nm. The analyte was extracted from AIO-TPN admixtures by means of an SPE method. The cefotaxime calibration curve was linear over a concentration range of 100–1400 μg/mL with a correlation coefficient of ≥0.9994. The intraday accuracy and precision for cefotaxime were ≤–3.15 and ≤3.08%, respectively, whereas the interday accuracy and precision were ≤–2.48 and ≤2.25%, respectively. The method was successfully applied to stability studies of cefotaxime in the presence of micronutrients together with low and high concentrations of macronutrients in AIO-TPN admixtures. Cefotaxime was degraded by 13.00 and 26.05% at room temperature (25 ± 2°C) after 72 h in low and high macronutrient concentration formulations of AIO-TPN admixtures, respectively. The values of cefotaxime degradation rates for low and high macronutrient concentration formulations of AIO-TPN admixtures were –0.164 and –0.353, respectively. These results indicated that there was higher rate of degradation in the AIO-TPN admixture formulations containing high concentrations of macronutrients.

THE EFFECTS OF AMMONIUM NITRATE AND UREA ON THE RELEASE OF NON-EXCHANGEABLE POTASSIUM BY EIGHT EASTERN PRAIRIE SOILS DURING CONTINUOUS CROPPING IN THE GREENHOUSE

1974 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. D. BAILEY
Keyword(s):  
Ammonium Nitrate ◽  
Nitrogen Content ◽  
Plant Material ◽  
Total Yield ◽  
Continuous Cropping ◽  
Exchangeable Potassium ◽  
Total N ◽  
Prairie Soils ◽  
Soil Potassium ◽  
Total Potassium

Continuous cropping of eight Manitoba soils to alfalfa in the greenhouse decreased the exchangeable potassium of the soils to low equilibrium levels. Non-exchangeable potassium was removed from the soils by the alfalfa. The rate of decrease of exchangeable potassium and the quantity of non-exchangeable potassium mobilized was significantly influenced by the addition of ammonium nitrate or urea to the soils. However, there were no significant differences between the soils treated with ammonium nitrate and those treated with urea. There was considerable variation among soils in the rate of decrease of exchangeable potassium and the quantity of non-exchangeable potassium mobilized. The total yield of soil potassium was related to the initial exchangeable potassium levels of the soils. Addition of NH4NO3 increased the percentage of total N in the plant material harvested prior to the eighth harvest. After this eighth harvest the added nitrogen had no effect on the nitrogen content of the harvested material. In general, fine-textured soils yielded more plant material and total potassium, and maintained a higher level of exchangeable potassium than coarse-textured soils.

The availability of potassium in some Tasmanian soils. I. The variability of soil potassium in the field and its fractionation

1960 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 750
Author(s):  
AM Graley ◽  
KD Nicholls ◽  
CS Piper
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Acid ◽  
Hydrochloric Acid ◽  
Soil Type ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Sandy Loam ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Soluble Form ◽  
Exchangeable Potassium ◽  
Exchangeable Fraction ◽  
Total Potassium

The potassium status of Frodsley sandy loam and some associated soils from the Fingal district, north-eastern Tasmania, has been investigated. Regularly spaced sampling of surface soils on a rectilinear grid pattern disclosed a variability of exchangeable potassium values in the field much greater than recorded for soils elsewhere; even for 3-ft spacings there was a sevenfold range. The need for adequate sampling of experimental areas is stressed. The median value for exchangeable potassium in the A1 horizon of Frodsley sandy loam was 0.31 m-equiv./100 g for "developed" areas and 0.35 m-equiv./100 g for "undeveloped" areas. Values for the A2 horizon were closely correlated with those for the corresponding surface horizon, but only about one-third as high. The amounts in the B horizon tended to approximate to those in the A1 horizon except for soils with high values in the surface. The potassium-supplying capacity of the soils was assessed by fractionation of the potassium into water-soluble, exchangeable, difficultly exchangeable, hydrochloric acid-soluble, and total potassium. In Frodsley sandy loam approximately 35 per cent. of the exchangeable potassium appeared in the water-soluble form, which suggested that there may be moderate losses from this soil by leaching. Ten minutes' boiling with normal nitric acid released only about 90 per cent. more potassium than was present in the exchangeable fraction. Boiling normal nitric acid extracted much less potassium from some samples of this soil type than did cold normal ammonium chloride from others, because of the great variability of exchangeable potassium. Concentrated hydrochloric acid dissolved a further 0.60.7 m-equiv./100 g on the average. These low values for the two latter fractions are taken to indicate the poverty of this soil type in reserves of potassium and, with the relatively low values for the exchangeable fraction, explain the widespread responses to potassium reported in field experiments. Examination of the minerals of the clay fraction of Frodsley sandy loam supported the chemical data in regard to the poor potassium status of these soils. Separation of sand, silt, and clay from the B horizons of two profiles showed that much of the total potassium was present in the coarser fractions of the soil. Type A, a soil associated with Frodsley sandy loam on river terraces, had a similar potassium status. Soils formed on dolerite were significantly higher in all categories of potassium.

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