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Provedor de dados: | 63
País: | Brazil
Título: | Cations extraction of sandy-clay soils from cavado valley, portugal, using sodium salts solutions
Autores: | Silva,João Eudes da; Castro,Fernando.
Data: | 2002-06-01
Ano: | 2002
Palavras-chave: | Nitrate; Sandy clay material; Natural weathering.
Resumo: | Cases of contamination by metals in the water wells of the Cavado Valley in north-west Portugal can be attributed to the heavy leaching of clay soils due to an excess of nitrogen resulting from the intensive use of fertilisers in agricultural areas. This work focuses on the natural weathering characteristics of soils, particularly the clay material, through the study of samples collected near the River Cavado. Samples taken from various sites, after physico-chemical characterisation, were subjected to clay dissolution tests, using sodium salts of different ionic forces, to detect the relationship between certain physico-chemical parameters of water, such as pH, nitrate, chloride and sulphate content, in the dissolution of clay and the subsequent extraction of such cations as Al, Fe and K. In acidic sandy clay soils, the mineralogical composition of which was characterised by a predominance of quartz, micas, kaolinite and K-feldspars, decreases of the clay material/water pH ratio increases dissolution of the micaceous and K-feldspars phases. The presence of nitrates in the aqueous solution apparently advanced the extraction of all three cations Al, Fe and K. The specific surface area of the clay material showed a significant correlation with the main kinetic parameters of cation extraction.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162002000200024
Editor: | São Paulo - Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz"
Relação: | 10.1590/S0103-90162002000200024
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Scientia Agricola  v.59 n.2 2002
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess