Abstract

Soils under Altered Moisture Conditions and its Effects

Author(s): Mansour Khan

A precise soil chemistry, as a sub area of soil technology, originated with the research of J. Thomas way, a consulting chemist to the royal agricultural society in England. The father of soil chemistry completed a brilliant institution of experiments at the ability of soils to trade ions. He discovered that soils could adsorb each cations and anions and that these ions could be exchanged with different ions. He cited that ion alternate changed into rapid, that clay become an crucial soil factor in the adsorption of cations and that heating soils or treating them with strong acid decreased the potential of the soils to adsorb ions. The good sized majority of manner’s observations were later validated correct and his work laid the foundation for plenty seminal studies on ion exchange and ion adsorption that had been later performed soil chemists.