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Report on Flame Photometric Determination of Exchangeable Mangesium in Soils
Author(s) -
Attoe O. J.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
soil science society of america journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1435-0661
pISSN - 0361-5995
DOI - 10.2136/sssaj1959.03615995002300060028x
Subject(s) - photometer , soil water , extraction (chemistry) , analytical chemistry (journal) , mathematics , environmental science , chemistry , environmental chemistry , chromatography , soil science , physics , optics
Twelve soil samples, varying from about 40 to 1600 ppm. of exchangeable Mg, were analyzed for this constituent by collaborators at 13 state and federal laboratories. Twelve laboratories used the Beckman flame photometer and one laboratory the standard AOAC method. All laboratories followed the same extraction procedure, and at 7 of these the determinations were made by two operators. An analysis of variance revealed there were highly significant differences in the results obtained between laboratories and between operators within laboratories. However, in terms of the accuracy usually obtained for Mg by other methods, there was fairly good agreement between laboratories and between the flame photometric and AOAC methods.