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Topic 2: Movement and interaction of nitrates and pesticides in the vegetation cover—soil groundwater-rock system

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Organic and inorganic materials brought into the soil by intensive agricultural activities are decomposed in the soil zone by chemical and biochemical effects and redox processes and will enter into the infiltration process in the form of dissolved ions. Water movement in the unsaturated and saturated infiltration zone is subject to the laws of hydrology, but the changes of dissolved material content are controlled by chemical and biochemical effects also subject to changes in the transport processes.

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    László Alföldi

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Alföldi, L. Topic 2: Movement and interaction of nitrates and pesticides in the vegetation cover—soil groundwater-rock system. Geo 5, 19–25 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02381296

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