Total nitrogen

Methods of Soil Analysis, Part 2: Chemical and Microbiological Properties

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1149-1178

  Bremner, J M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dry oxidation technique; Dumas method; Kjeldahl method; Soils; Total nitrogen

Indexed keywords

EID: 85092007391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/agronmonogr9.2.c32     Document Type: Chapter

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