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Chemical Equilibrium and Reaction Models
ISBN: 9780891189374
Platform/Publisher: WOL / ACSESS
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Agriculture Aquaculture & Food Science; Agriculture;

The application of chemical equilibrium principles to soils was not intensively studied in years past because soils are complex and variable systems that are also highly dynamic. Even if equilibrium could be assumed for some or all of the chemical components, a quantitative, thermodynamic description of the system is a mathematically difficult and arduous task because of the large number of possible chemical reactions. The development of chemical equilibrium and reaction models and their more recent availability for personal computers has eliminated the drudgery of manually solving dozens of simultaneous thermodynamic equations and has opened new research opportunities for soil chemists. The leaders of the Soil Chemistry Division (S-2) of the Soil Science Society of America recognized that the interest in equilibrium modeling was growing rapidly and that members would benefit by a series of technical, in-depth papers on the subject.

Richard H. Loeppert is a professor of soil chemistry at Texas A&M.

Paul Schwab is a professor of environmental chemistry at Texas A&M.

Sabine Goldberg is a research soil scientist at the USDA-ARS in Riverside, CA.