Mossbauer spectroscopic study of soils collected from Panipat region

Abstract

<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-in;mso-fareast-language:en-in;mso-bidi-language:="" hi"="" lang="EN-IN">Mossbauer spectroscopy of ⁵⁷Fe has been used to study some soil samples picked up from regions where the growth of crops is not normal as well as from the fertile part of the land in the Panipat district of Haryana. The ferrous- ferric ratios in these samples were determined. An attempt has also been made to correlate the Fe²⁺/Fe³⁺ ratio with <i>p</i>H values of the samples. The importance of these results lies in the necessity of application of suitable micronutrients in the area where the growth of crops is below normal.</span>