Rapid, nondestructive total elemental analysis of vertisol soils using portable X-ray fluorescence

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1436-1445

  McLaren, Timothy I ^a   Guppy, Christopher N ^a   Tighe, Matthew K ^a   Forster, Nicola ^a   Grave, Peter ^a   Lisle, Leanne M ^a   Bennett, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUA REGIA; AUSTRALIA; CHEMICAL PROCESS; ELEMENT ANALYSIS; ELEMENTS IN SOIL; ICP-OES; LINEAR CORRELATION; NEW SOUTH WALES; NON DESTRUCTIVE; PLASMA OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; PORTABLE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SOIL ELEMENT; VERTISOLS; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LEAD; MANGANESE; X RAY SPECTROMETERS; X RAYS;

SOILS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; LABORATORY METHOD; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; SAMPLING; VERTISOL; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84865363126     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: 14350661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2011.0354     Document Type: Article

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