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Study of Porosity of Soils and Soil Minerals Modified by Adsorbed Humic Acid by the Method of Mercury Porosimetry

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Experimental determination of porosity and pore size distribution by mercury porosimetry has shown that adsorption modification of the surface of kaolinite, montmorillonite, palygorskite, quartz sand, gray forest soil (Eutric Luvisol (Loamic, Cutanic, Ochric), as well as chernozem (Luvic Chernozem (Loamic, Pachic)), by humic acid (HA) has little effect on total porosity and total pore volume, but affects differential pore volume values and pore size distribution (crypto-, ultramicro-, meso-, and macropores). For soils exposed to humic acids, greater stability of the structure and a significantly more homogeneous distribution of the differential porosity were revealed. The effect of the adsorption of humic acid on the structural–sorption properties of minerals and soils is important in the context of understanding formation of soil adsorption complex and regulation of the structural and water-physical properties of soils and soil fertility management.

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The authors are grateful to M. Hajnos (Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Lublin)) for the mercury porometric measurements of soils and soil minerals using an AutoPoreIV 9500 porometer (Micromeritics).

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The study was carried out within the framework of the state assignment АААА-А18-118013190172-4 “Biogeochemical processes of formation and transformation of the mineral and organic matter of soils as indicators of the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems.”

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Kurochkina, G.N. Study of Porosity of Soils and Soil Minerals Modified by Adsorbed Humic Acid by the Method of Mercury Porosimetry. Eurasian Soil Sc. 55, 1414–1424 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106422932210009X

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