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Soil Salinity under Irrigation pp 15–48Cite as

Basic Chemistry of Salinity

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Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 51))

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The management of salt-affected soils is based to a large degree on the chemistry of the soil-water system. A popular approach has been to treat the aqueous phase in the soil matrix as an electrolyte solution. Thus all basic laws of solution chemistry governing chemical reactions and physicochemical processes are considered when quantifying the interactive multiphase equilibria which determines the chemical composition of the soil solution. The application of thermodynamic principles to soils, aquatic and other natural systems has gained impetus from a growing number of excellent texts on this topic (Garrels and Christ 1965, Lindsay 1979, Sposito 1981, Stumm and Morgan 1981).

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Jurinak, J.J., Keren, R., Shainberg, I. (1984). Basic Chemistry of Salinity. In: Shainberg, I., Shalhevet, J. (eds) Soil Salinity under Irrigation. Ecological Studies, vol 51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69836-1_2

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