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Soil acidification and aluminium mobility
Author(s) -
Bache B. W.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
soil use and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.709
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1475-2743
pISSN - 0266-0032
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-2743.1985.tb00643.x
Subject(s) - aluminium , solubility , soil water , drainage , chemistry , soil acidification , environmental chemistry , soil ph , inorganic chemistry , soil science , environmental science , ecology , organic chemistry , biology
. Natural acidification processes result in increasing solubility of aluminium as soils become more acid. Exchangeable aluminium provides a large reserve that can be mobilized by percolating acids or salts, with solution pH determining the upper limit of its solubility. Aluminium can also be mobilized within soils and into drainage waters in soluble complexes with silica or fluoride, and in organically complexed forms.