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... Discussion and SummaryA few cases have been cited to illustrate the relationship of soils and their fertilization on the chemical composition of hay and pasture. Because of the mixed vegetation usually occurring in meadows and pastures, including the experimental plots, it was necessary to omit references to classic examples of the remarkable variations in the botanical and chemical composition of ...
agricultural soils; crops; cobalt; nutrient content; livestock; etiology; chemical constituents of plants; wasting syndrome; Hawaii
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... Chemical analysis of a number of Hawaiian soils and plants for cobalt reveals the following: The cobalt contents of the soils probably fall in the middle of the range reported for soils in other parts of the world. The values range from 5 to 156 parts per million, and the average for 80 soil samples is 36.1 ppm. The cobalt content is highest in the A horizons and seems to run parallel with the acc ...
A horizons; B horizons; C horizons; brown podzolic soils; cobalt; copper; forests; leaching; lead; manganese; molybdenum; sesquioxides; zinc
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... The purpose of this investigation was to study the distribution and comparative leaching of several trace elements in virgin profiles of the Podzol, Brown Podzolic, Gray-Brown Podzolic and Brown Forest great soil groups. Two profiles of each group were analyzed for total Zn, Pb, Cu, Co, Mn and Mo. The results were compared with those for sesquioxides. The distribution of trace elements was more va ...
... The effect of various levels of gamma radiation on some of the physical properties of Dacron,¹ nylon, cotton, Orion,² Fiberglas, Celanese X-36, and rayon was measured. Properties studied were flex fatigue, creep rate, melt points, stress strain, and shrinkage tension. In general, the effect of radiation is to worsen the physical properties of the cords evaluated. Some improvement was found in the ...
... Methods for determining sulfydryl sulfur only and sulfydryl plus disulfide sulfur in intact wool are described. In the first case, the wool is allowed to react with an excess of an organic mercurial in a buffer containing urea at pH 7-8.5, while in the second case sulfite as well as urea is present in a buffer at pH 8.5. In both, the excess mer curial is determined polarographically. Two existing ...
... Samples of Rifle peat were irradiated with gamma rays from a Co⁶⁰ source at doses of 2, 8, 32, 64, 128, and 250 kiloroentgens (kr.). The irradiated samples were incubated for 54 days, and periodic determinations were made on the rate of CO₂ evolution, P and N mineralization, pH changes, and development of bacterial and fungal populations. The radiation doses employed had no significant effect on d ...
Nyssa sylvatica; Podzols; Regosols; cattle; cobalt; groundwater; leaves; poorly drained soils; sheep; soil sampling; Southeastern United States
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... The relationship between 2.5% acetic acid-dithizone extractable soil cobalt and the amount of cobalt in black gum leaves, a cobalt indicator, was investigated for 71 widely distributed soils of the southeastern United States. The soil samples were from both good areas and areas where cobalt deficiency in ruminants would be expected on the basis of previous analyses. The extractable cobalt values a ...
... Specific reactions between montmorillonite and Co in low concentrations were studied in the presence of excess CaCl₂. Two forms of bound Co were distinguished. One form, characterized as being slowly dissociable, appears to be bound in a monolayer by chemisorption and will exchange with Cu⁺⁺, Zn⁺⁺, or other Co⁺⁺ and to a lesser extent with ions of other transition metals but not with Ca⁺⁺, Mg⁺⁺, o ...
... A water-soluble Co salt applied to soils will result in a greatly increased uptake by crop plants for a short period. Although most of this Co is retained in the soil it gradually becomes unavailable and its effect may entirely disappear within 10 years. Since soil minerals are important factors in the Co supply to the soil solution the relative uptake of Co from substrates containing Co-impregnat ...
... The relationship of soil factors associated with reported areas of Mo toxicity in cattle in seven agriculturally important valleys in Nevada was investigated. The level of Mo in the plant was selected as a measure of the soil factors, but Cu, Co, S and P were also determined in a large number of the forage samples. The Mo content varied both with plant species and soils. Under Nevada conditions, a ...
... A study of the uptake of Co, Cs, and Sr by rye, garden peas, and soybeans showed that the amount of these elements harvested, as well as the concentration in the plants, varied with the nature of the soil colloid on which they were grown. Illite, kaolinite, montmorillonite, peat (fibrous), peat (sedimentary), and Putnam clay were Ca-saturated, mixed with nutrients and sand; and treated with known ...
Trifolium hybridum; brown podzolic soils; cobalt; copper; greenhouse experimentation; molybdenum; soil solution; soil water; soil water content; water content; Nevada; New Hampshire
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... The effect of soil moisture level on the uptake of Mo, Cu, and Co by alsike clover was investigated in a greenhouse experiment with two Brown Podzolic soils from New Hampshire and a Weisenboden and a Brown soil from Nevada. A wet soil condition increased the Mo in the soil solution and plant Mo content on all four soils. The Co concentration in the soil solution was higher in pots maintained at th ...
brown podzolic soils; clay; cobalt; forage; grasses; groundwater; legumes; mountains; ruminants; sand; sandy loam soils; silt loam soils; Maine; Massachusetts; New England region; New Hampshire
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... The Co content of soils and common forage plants was low and related to reported areas of Co deficiency in ruminant animals in two extensive areas of granitic drift deposits in New England. One of the areas extends from southestern Maine to southeastern New Hampshire, encompassing an area mantled by granitic drifts from the White Mountains. The other area occurs in southeastern Massachusetts and i ...
adsorption; alcohols; calcium; cations; cobalt; endothermy; fluorides; heat; heavy metals; hydrolysis; metal ions; moieties; montmorillonite; temperature
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... Pretreatment of montmorillonite with F interferes with the adsorption of Co by montmorillonite. Since the effect is reversible with base, the F is thought to replace surface hydroxyl groups that serve as the adsorption sites for Co. The Co reaction with these sites increases with temperature, indicating that the reaction is endothermic. Therefore, either heat is required to form the Co-to-surface ...
... The proposition that hydrolysis may account for the selective adsorption of heavy metals by clay surfaces is compared with an alternate explanation of specific exchange of the metal with weakly dissociable H⁺. It is shown that past evidence offered in support of the two hypotheses is somewhat ambiguous. Theoretical treatment is presented for the competition of ions in adsorption reactions which pr ...
Pinus contorta var. latifolia; Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii; Tsuga heterophylla; aluminum; cobalt; copper; iron; leaves; manganese; molybdenum; rivers; silicon; trees; zinc; British Columbia
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... Foliage samples were secured from the upper-one third of the crowns of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga taxifolia P.), lodgepole pine. (Pinus contorta D.), and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla R.) trees. Needles of the 1961, 1962, and 1963 growth were obtained with the exception of western hemlock samples at Gold River where only the current growth was collected. The needles were analyzed for the micro ...