Ball milling pretreatment affects the content of fixed ammonium in soils in response to the content of exchangeable ammonium

Autor: Naoki Moritsuka, Kaori Matsuoka, Shinya Funakawa
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. 63:321-328
ISSN: 1747-0765
0038-0768
Popis: Analysis of fixed ammonium (NH4+) in soils by the most common method requires the subsample to be ground to pass through a 100-mesh sieve. We tested a hypothesis that the ball milling pretreatment for the analysis of fixed NH4+ may influence the analytical results depending on the content of exchangeable NH4+. Five paddy soils collected from the surface layer in Japan were treated with 15N-labeled ammonium sulfate at 0, 100, 500, or 1000 mg N kg−1, incubated aerobically at 30°C for 7 days, and air-dried. Part of each soil was then ground in a vibration ball mill at 1200 rpm for 10 min as a pretreatment (BMP treatment). The samples with and without the BMP treatment were analyzed for exchangeable NH4+ and total fixed NH4+. The samples that received 0 or 1000 mg N kg−1 were also analyzed for nonexchangeable 15N (total fixed 15NH4+ plus organic 15N) and hot KCl-extractable organic N. At 0 mg N kg−1, the BMP treatment significantly decreased total fixed NH4+ in all soils and significantly increased ex...
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