Improvements to peroxide oxidation methods for analysing sulfur in acid sulfate soils

Australian Journal of Soil Research

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1115-1132

  McElnea, Angus E ^a,b   Ahern, Col R ^a   Menzies, Neal W ^b  

^a QLD Dept of Nat Res/Mines ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digest conditions; Improved peroxide method; Peroxide oxidisable sulfur; Sulfur budgets

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; OXIDATION; PEROXIDES; SULFUR; TITRATION;

REGRESSION LINE;

SOILS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SULFATE;

EID: 0036434759     PISSN: 00049573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SR01100     Document Type: Article

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