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Inclusion of nitrate and nitrite in the Kjeldahl nitrogen determination of soils and plant materials using sodium thiosulphate

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00103628409367572
 
Title Inclusion of nitrate and nitrite in the Kjeldahl nitrogen determination of soils and plant materials using sodium thiosulphate
 
Creator Dalai, R C
Sahrawat, K L
Myers, R J K
 
Subject Soil Science
 
Description Sodium thiosulphate was used in a modification of the regular Kjeldahl method for the determination of total N in soil and plant samples containing NO‐ 3‐N and NO‐ 2‐N. Quantitative recoveries of added 15N‐labelled and unlabelled N0‐ 3‐N (1000 μg N), NO‐ 2‐N (500 μg N), and NO‐ 3‐N (500 μg N) + N0‐ 2‐N (250 μg N) were obtained from soils, plant materials and adenine, even in the presence of water (up to 50 ml H?0/sample) when 5 g of Na2S203.5H20 as 25% aqueous solution was added to each sample before digestion. Moreover, this procedure does not require additional pretreatment of samples as does the salicylic acid‐sodium thiosulphate or KMnO4‐Fe modification of the Kjeldahl method, and therefore saves considerable time.
 
Publisher Taylor & Francis
 
Date 1984
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4526/1/CSSPA_15_12_1453-1461_1984.pdf
Dalai, R C and Sahrawat, K L and Myers, R J K (1984) Inclusion of nitrate and nitrite in the Kjeldahl nitrogen determination of soils and plant materials using sodium thiosulphate. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 15 (12). pp. 1453-1461. ISSN 0010-3624