Aqua regia extractable selenium concentrations of some Scottish topsoils measured by ICP-MS and the relationship with mineral and organic soil components

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 972-980

  Shand, Charles A ^a   Balsam, Matthias ^a,c   Hillier, Stephen J ^a   Hudson, Gordon ^a   Newman, Gareth ^a   Arthur, John R ^b   Nicol, Fergus ^b  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c FRESENIUS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aqua regia extraction; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Selenium; Soil; Soil carbon; Soil minerals

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SILICATE; AQUA REGIA; CARBON; FELDSPAR; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; MINERAL; NITRIC ACID; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM DERIVATIVE; SELENIUM; SOIL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; SOIL; UNITED KINGDOM; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ANALYSIS;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; CARBON; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALS; NITRIC ACID; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SCOTLAND; SELENIUM; SOIL; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 77949616760     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.3905     Document Type: Article

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