Elucidating fundamental mechanisms in soil and environmental chemistry: The role of advanced analytical, spectroscopic, and microscopic methods

Future Prospects for Soil Chemistry

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 103-122

  Bertsch, Paul M ^a   Hunter, Douglas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced analytical methods; Electromagnetic spectrum; Environmental chemistry; Environmental samples; Microscopic methods; Scanning probe microscopy; Soil chemistry; Spectrometer environment; Spectroscopic methods

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EID: 85101713017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaspecpub55.c5     Document Type: Chapter

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