Donwill wrote:
In acid soil and peat what are the acids that make it so?
Carbonic? a bit weak perhaps?
Nitric?
Wouldn't be Sulphuric.
Can't believe it would be Hydrochloric.
Any ideas, and where would it come from.
Don


Ex Chemistry Teacher mode - Humus contains of many macromolecules with
carboxylic acid groups. (also phenolic but those would be less acidic).
However with a complicated system like soil with ions being added and
leached away all the time it is not really possible to say that the
hydrogen ions that make it acidic come from a particular acid.

Paul

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