Techniques for boron determination and their application to the analysis of plant and soil samples

Plant and Soil

Volumn 193, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 15-33

  Sah, Ram N ^a   Brown, Patrick H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OPTICAL EMISSION; POTENTIOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRACE ELEMENT;

EID: 0030801688     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5580-9_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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