Soil N Determination?

12 December 2016 1 7K Report

Dear All I am interested to know some simple method how to determine soil nitrogen else than the Kjeldahl method.

Flash combustion in a CN, CNS or other elemental analyser is one possibility, for Total N anyway. There are several manufacturers around that you can look up for info on this e.g. Leco, Carbo-Erba, Perkin-Elmer

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