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Published in Soil Sci Soc Am J 21:368-373 (1957)
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Chelating Ability of Soil Organic Matter1

Frank L. Himes and Stanley A. Barber2

ABSTRACT

It was discovered that organic matter reacted with divalent metal ions in a manner similar to chelation reactions. Radioactive zinc was used to facilitate the adsorption measurements. Multiple regression was used to develop a prediction equation to determine the amount of zinc adsorbed as influenced by zinc added, pH, and ionic strength of the solution.

Removal of organic matter by oxidation with hydrogen peroxide destroyed the ability of the soil to chelate zinc. Removal of hydrous silicates did not influence the retention of zinc by the soil.

The organic matter was fractionated into the humic and fulvic fractions. Both fractions reacted with zinc in a manner similar to the untreated soil. Methylation of the organic matter was used to determine the functional groups involved in the chelation reaction. Carboxyl groups did not appear to be important.

The stability constant for the zinc soil complex was investigated by two independent methods. For a Maumee sandy loam soil at pH 7 and 2N KCl it was found to be 5.6.

NOTES

1 Journal Paper No. 1020, Purdue University Agr. Exp. Sta., Lafayette, Indiana. Contribution form the Department of Agronomy. Part of a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree by the senior author. This investigation was supported in part by a grant from the Eli Lilly Foundation. Presented before Div. II, Soil Science Society of America, Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 14, 1956.

2 Assistant Professor of Agronomy, Ohio State University, and Associate Professor of Agronomy, Purdue University, respectively.

Received for publication October 13, 1956. Accepted for publication January 29, 1957.






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