Chromatographic Separation of Green Humic Acid from Podzol Humus

Abstract

One of the authors, Kumada ¹⁾ has found that absorption spectra of podzol humic acids, remarkably different from the other soil humic acids, have fairly distinct absorption bands near 620, 570 and 450 mµ, and he tentatively named them. P type humic acid. P type humic acid seems specific not only in its visible absorption spectra, but also in infra. red absorption spectra, in susceptible to electrolytes, etc. The authors are now engaged in the study of the nature and properties of P type humic acid, and recently they have found that it is composed of at least two main fractions, the one is reddish brown, and the other green, in alkaline solution. The experimental results are briefly presented.