Speciation and longand short-term molecular-level dynamics of soil organic sulfur studied by x-ray absorption near-edge structure Spectroscopy

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 704-718

  Solomon, Dawit ^a   Lehmann, Johannes ^a   de Zarruk, Katrin Knoth ^b   Dathe, Julia ^a   Kinyangi, James ^a   Liang, Biqing ^a   Machado, Stephen ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC INCUBATION; GRASSLAND SOILS; MICROBIAL ATTACK; MOLECULAR LEVELS; ORGANIC SULFUR; ORGANOSULFUR COMPOUNDS; REACTIVE COMPONENTS; S COMPOUNDS; SOIL SAMPLE; SUGARCANE RESIDUES; XANES; XANES SPECTROSCOPY;

LAKES; POLYSULFIDES; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; SOILS; SULFUR; THIOPHENE; X RAY ABSORPTION NEAR EDGE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

DISULFIDE; SULFIDE; SULFOXIDE; SULFUR; THIOL DERIVATIVE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; GRASSLAND; INCUBATION TIME; OXIDATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SUGARCANE; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AGRICULTURE; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; OREGON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOIL; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 79956116576     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2010.0061     Document Type: Article

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