Simultaneous Multi-Element Analysis of Farmland Soil Extracts Using the ICPE-9820

User Benefits

- The ICPE-9820 can quickly analyze farmland soil for multiple elements simultaneously. - The ICPE-9820 can analyze high matrix samples without dilution, such as farmland soil solution extracts.

Introduction

Since soil contains constituents essential for crop growth that affect yield and quality, there is increasing demand for soil testing to help maintain optimum concentrations of soil constituents. Soil testing can determine the concentrations of these constituents and then create an optimized fertilization regimen to adjust them. Elemental analysis in soil testing is typically performed with an atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS). However, as soil testing becomes more common, there is a growing demand for faster soil analysis. The ICPE-9820, an inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrophotometer (ICP-AES) offers a wide dynamic range and can analyze multiple elements simultaneously. Soil testing analyzes soil for a large number of elements, and the ICPE-9820 can perform extremely efficient analyses that measure major and trace constituents simultaneously. In this Application News, the ICPE-9820 analyzed farmland soil solution extracts for exchangeable constituents, available boron, trace elements and cadmium. And a spike recovery test and a dilution test were then performed to validate this analytical method.

March 25, 2025 GMT