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Physical and chemical methods of soil and water analysis

Year of publication 1970

Pages 286

Author Land and Water Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series title FAO Soils Bulletin

Series number 0253-2050

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This FAO soils bulleting includes methods of analysis which are considered suited to soil and water laboratories recently of presently established in developing countries. This guide has been written on the assumption that its readers have a basic knowledge of soil sicence and related fields in analytical chemistry and practical physics. This bulleting, together with FAO soil bulletin n.3 (

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