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Excerpt from Acidity and Acidimetry of Soils, Vol. 12
Although the literature upon the subject of soil acidity is voluminous, the use of the hydrogen elec trode in soil investigations has been rather limited.
Gillespie2 made use of the hydrogen electrode for determining the hydrogen ion concentration of a mixture of soil with pure water; but, for reasons which will develop in the investigations given herewith, the presence of a conducting medium was found to be desirable. Sharp and Hoagland3 studied the hydrogen concentrations of suspensions of soils in pure water under various conditions, effects of natural salts and bases upon hydrogen ion concentrations of soil sus pensions, and made titrations with various bases.
The purpose of the present investigation is to study (i) the speed of reactions between neutral salt solutions and soils; (2) the speed of reactions in the presence of a base; (3) the Change in hydrogen ion concentration With change of amount of base and with time, and the change in conductivity of soil solutions.
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