Sentences with phrase «from alkaline soil»
The sodium salt of the soluble iron complex, [Fe (III)- EDMA]-, is used in large quantities as an iron micronutrient in citrus agriculture, for plants that can not extract iron from alkaline soil in which the iron is insoluble.
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But these yield differences are highly contextual, depending on system and site characteristics, and range from 5 % lower organic yields (rain - fed legumes and perennials on weak - acidic to weak - alkaline soils), 13 % lower yields (when best organic practices are used), to 34 % lower yields (when the conventional and organic systems are most comparable).
Eco Alkalines batteries take 50 — 70 years to biodegrade because of the materials they're made from and they don't leach heavy metals into soils.»
The mixing also affects soil pH: the best - known earthworm in central Europe, the Lumbricus terrestris, carries alkaline soil upwards from deeper layers.
Working on soil samples from a highly alkaline industrial site in the Peak District, which is not radioactive but does suffer from severe contamination with highly alkaline lime kiln wastes, they discovered specialist «extremophile» bacteria that thrive under the alkaline conditions expected in cement - based radioactive waste.
This can happen, for example, when heavy tropical rains leach alkaline materials from the soils.
The most significant effect of alkaline water is plant's inability to absorb nutrients from the soil.
Seems to come from water / soil contamination from ore smelting, oil refining, soluble in water but complexes with alkaline soil.
An earlier study in Iowa concluded that part of the reason for the high emissions from anhydrous ammonia arose from application as a concentrated band creating alkaline conditions in the soil band.