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Question Asked 2nd Feb, 2018

M ak id M as k aw at M arjub
Jahangirnagar University
What is the perf ect temperature f or drying soil
sample in oven f or analysis of dissolved organic Similar questions and discussions
matter?
Characteristic changes in the f luorescent dissolved
organic matter in Soil How long s hould a s oil s am ple ne e de d
to be drie d to obtain s oil m ois ture
Soil Analy sis Organic Matter Dry ing Fluorescence m e as ure m e nt ?
Question 7 answ ers
Asked 9th Sep, 2015
Share Mathavan Vicknesw aran
Hello, i w ould like to be advised on the
duration of drying needed f or a soil sample
f or me to completely access their moisture
content to calculate Bulk Density.
Popular Answ ers (1) There are literature that indicates that the soil
samples needed to be dried until their w eight
Nils Borchard becomes stable or does not decrease
2nd Feb, 2018 anymore. Follow ing this method, i subjected
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Institute Finland (Luke) my samples into the oven, under 105 Celsius.
For my samples w eight to stabilize it took
Dear Makid, around 3 w eeks.

do not dry and extract DOC f rom f resh soil as Is there a method to dry the soils in shorter
suggested by Jones, D.L., Willett, V.B., 2006. period of time and obtaining their soil
Experimental evaluation of methods to quantif y moisture content ? Can you please direct me
dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and dissolved to a good literature on this method ?
organic carbon (DOC) in soil. Soil Biol. Biochem. 38,
991–999. https://doi.org/10.1016
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/j.soilbio.2005.08.012.
What's the drying te m pe rature w he n
For total carbon measurements (e.g. element drying s pe cim e ns in an ove n to obtain
analyzer) soils are usually dried at 40°C until the dry m as s for w ate r conte nt
constant w eight. For soil w ater determination soils calculation?
are heated up to 105 or even 110°C. Question 47 answ ers
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Zhigen Wu
Nils
It seems there is no conf irmed answ er to
3 Recommendations this, both 105°C and 80°C w ere used in the
literature.Do you have any standard to
support the proposed temperature?

Thanks.
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Zahraa Emad 2nd Feb, 2018 Why to air-dry the s oil s am ple be fore
Al-Mustansiriya University ove n drying to m e as ure m ois ture
conte nt?

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