TRACE ELEMENTS IN PHOSPHATE ROCK AND FERTILIZERS

Uranium and heavy metals in Phosphate Fertilizers

Agricultural applications of chemical fertilizers are a world wide practice. The specific activity of uranium-238 and heavy metals in phosphate fertilizers depends on the phosphate ore from which the fertilizer produced and on the chemical processing of the ore. Composite phosphate fertilizers samples where collected and the uranium-238 specific activity, in Bq/kg, and As, Cd, Cu, Pb, Se concen...

Use of dolomite phosphate rock (DPR) fertilizers to reduce phosphorus leaching from sandy soil.

There is increasing concern over P leaching from sandy soils applied with water-soluble P fertilizers. Laboratory column leaching experiments were conducted to evaluate P leaching from a typical acidic sandy soil in Florida amended with DPR fertilizers developed from dolomite phosphate rock (DPR) and N-Viro soil. Ten leaching events were carried out at an interval of 7 days, with a total leachi...

Radiological risk assessment of use of phosphate fertilizers in soil

ABSTRACT Background: The radiological impact of the use of phosphate fertilizers in soil is due to the internal irradiation of the lung by the alpha particles, short lived radon-thoron progeny and the external irradiation of the body by gamma rays emitted from radionuclides in situ. This paper describes the results of gamma spectrometric measurements of the concentration ...

Trace elements.

Trace Elements in Clinker –

The trace element content of clinkers (and possibly of cements) can be used for the qualitative identification (i.e. manufacturing factory). Several hundred clinker sorts have been analysed (by replicated quarterly samples, collected from all Hungarian cement factories as well as from factories of 8 foreign countries) to determine their Mg, Sr, Ba, Mn, Ti, Zr, Zn and V content. The first 6 elem...