This is a rigorous introduction to soil chemistry for non-specialist undergraduates and graduate researchers. The author describes soil minerals and organic matter in soils and the soil solution, and provides in-depth coverage of important chemical processes - these include solubility reactions, oxidation-reduction phenomena, adsorption, and ion exchange. The three final chapters present detailed applications to soil-plant relationships, fertilizer reactions in soils, acidity, salinity, mineral weathering, and soil management. Over 200 problems of varying difficulty are co-ordinated with the text, and an appendix of SI units summarizes their use in soil chemistry.
- ISBN13 9780195046151
- Publish Date 13 April 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 290
- Language English