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What Do Humic Acids Do?
A. Physically modify and improve the soil.
B. Chemically improve the fixation properties of the soil.
C. Biologically stimulate the plant
I. Physical Benefits:
- Increases water holding capacity.
- Increases aeration of soil.
- Improves soil workability.
- Helps resist drought.
- Improves seedbed.
- Makes soil more friable or crumbly.
- Reduces soil erosion.
II. Chemical Benefits:
- Retains water-soluble inorganic fertilizers in the root zones and
releases them to plants when needed.
- Promotes the conversation of a number of elements into forms
available to plants.
- Possesses extremely high ion-exchange capacities.
- Participates in the decomposition of rocks and minerals.
- Increases buffering properties of soil
- Chelates metal ions under alkaline conditions.
- Rich in both organic and mineral substances essential to plant
growth.
- Increases percentage of total nitrogen in the soil
III. Biological Benefits:
- Stimulates plant growth by accelerating cell division, increasing
the rate of development in root systems, and increasing the yield of
dry matter.
- Increases seed germination rates and seed viability.
- Increases vitamin content of plants.
- Increases the permeability of plant membranes; promoting the uptake
of nutrients.
- Stimulates root growth, especially lengthwise.
- Increases root respiration and formation.
- Stimulates growth and proliferation of desirable soil microorganisms
as well as algae and yeast.
- Aids in photosynthesis.
- Stimulates plant enzymes.
- Acts as an organic catalyst.
- Has no detrimental effects on quality of product.
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Terminology of Humus Materials?
Fulvates: are
the salts of fulvic acid
Fulvic Acid: is
the acid radical found in humic matter which is soluble in alkali, acid,
methyl ethyl ketone, and methyl alcohol.
Humates: are
the salts of humic acids, collectively, or the salts of humic acid,
specifically.
Humic Acid (singular): is
the acid radical found in humic matter which is soluble in alkali but
insoluble in acid, methyl ketone, and methyl alcohol.
Humic Acids (plural): is
the collective name for the acid radicals found in humic matter. They may
be separated from humic matter by alkaline extraction.
Humic Matter: is
completely decomposed organic matter, and is readily soluble either in
acids or in bases.
Humin: is
the alkali-insoluble fraction of leonardite. (This usage of the term does
not correspond exactly with the usage by other researchers.)
Humus: is
the product of the decay of organic matter, it contains both humic and
nonhumic material.
Leonardite: is
a soft brown coal-like deposit usually found in conjunction with deposits
of lignite.
Lignite: is
a type of soft coal.
Ulmates: are
the salts of ulmic acid.
Nonhumic: matter
is relatively undecomposed organic matter, and is relatively insoluble
Ulmic Acid: is
the acid radical found in humic matter which is soluble in alkali and
methyl ketone but insoluble in methyl alcohol. (This usage of term does not
correspond exactly with the usage by other researchers. It may also be
termed hymatomelanic acid.)
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