Trace elements: General soil chemistry, principles and processes

Trace Elements in Soils

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 9-37

  Tack, Filip M G ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chemical species identifying different chemical forms of occurrence in environment; Distribution of trace elements in the soil differing in reactivity; Mobilization of trace elements pH and redox Potential; Plant uptake transfer of trace elements, transfer factor (TF); Precipitation and dissolution formation of solid compound; Sorption and desorption sorption mechanisms and isotherms; Trace elements general soil chemistry, principles and processes; Transport of solutes advection and hydrodynamic dispersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886483014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444319477.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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