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Methods of Measurement of Dissolved Organic Carbon of Plant Origin in Soils, Manures, Sludges and Stream Water

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For all practical purposes, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) or dissolved organic matter (DOM) is defined operationally as the organic matter in solution that passes a 0.45-μm filter (Thurman 1985). Some workers have used finer filter paper (0.2 µm) to separate DOC from colloidal materials which are not retained in 0.45µm filters (Buffle et al. 1982). In some literature the term water-soluble organic matter (WSOM) has been used, which is the fraction of soil organic matter extracted with water or dilute salt solution that passes a 0.45-µm filter (Herbert et al. 1993).

Most of the data in this paper have already appeared in Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis (1996) 27:2723–2737.

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Bolan, N.S., Baskaran, S., Thiagarajan, S. (1999). Methods of Measurement of Dissolved Organic Carbon of Plant Origin in Soils, Manures, Sludges and Stream Water. In: Linskens, H.F., Jackson, J.F. (eds) Analysis of Plant Waste Materials. Modern Methods of Plant Analysis, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03887-1_1

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