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Solubilisation of phosphate rock by composting with peat
Author(s) -
Carolan R.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.2740100402
Subject(s) - peat , phosphorite , citric acid , phosphate , solubility , mineralogy , geology , chemistry , food science , archaeology , organic chemistry , geography
Recent experiments by Russian workers, using peat as a composting agent to solubilise phosphate rock, have been repeated with Irish peat and Algerian phosphate rock. The rock had 29.3% total P 2 O 5 of which 0.2% (0.7% of the total) was soluble in citric acid. This percentage citric solubility increased to 3.3 and 7.2, respectively, in composted 6 to 1 and 10 to 1 mixtures of peat and rock.
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