Removal of Heavy Metal and Halide Contamination from Macronutrient Salts
- 1 November 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 35 (6), 978-981
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.35.6.978
Abstract
Two new purification procedures were developed for application to salts commonly used to supply macronutrients to plants in sand or solution cultures. Heavy metal cations are co-precipitated from stock solutions with magnesium hydroxide. Halides are removed by wetting the dry salt with concentrated nitric acid and evaporating it to dryness. Chemical and biological tests established the effectiveness of these procedures.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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