Soil Laboratory

UP - University of Potsdam

last updated: July 19, 2023

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Soil Laboratory

UP - University of Potsdam

@ Environmental Science and Geography / Soil Science and Geoecology

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Description

The laboratory deals with the chemical and physical investigation of soil, water and plant materials. The samples to be processed here come, for example, from research projects in the Spreewald, the Lower Havel or Mongolia.
During their studies of geoecology, the students carry out internships in the laboratory. In addition, students from various faculties work on their final theses in the laboratory. Close cooperation takes place with the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry and Didactics of Chemistry and the Institute for Ecology and Nature Conservation at the University of Potsdam.

Instruments

ION CHROMATOGRAPHS are recorders that are used in chromatography; a form of high pressure liquid chromatography using conductivity detectors where a combination of weak ionic solvents are used to separate anions and cations of a solution, with the contribution of the solvent to conductivity suppressed just prior to detection; measures anions such as sulfate, nitrate, and chloride in hydrometers. (Source: Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 16.3 [...] )
IC - Ion Chromatograph
Instrument used for measuring carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur or oxygen content in organic and other types of materials. Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: CHNS/O ELEMENTAL ANALYZERS Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: In Situ/Laboratory Instruments Instrument_Class: Chemical Meters/Analyzers Short_Name: CHNS/O ELEMENTAL ANALYZERS End_Group Online_Resource: http://las.perkinelmer.com/content/RelatedMaterials/Brochures/BRO_2400SeriesIICHNSOelementalAnalyzer.pdf Creation_Date: 2009-10-15 End_Group (Source: Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 16.3 [...] )
EA - Elemental Analyzer
Laser Particle Size Analyzer
UV-VIS-NIR Spectrophotometer
Ball Mill
Screening Machine

Analytical Methods

ION CHROMATOGRAPHS are recorders that are used in chromatography; a form of high pressure liquid chromatography using conductivity detectors where a combination of weak ionic solvents are used to separate anions and cations of a solution, with the contribution of the solvent to conductivity suppressed just prior to detection; measures anions such as sulfate, nitrate, and chloride in hydrometers.
Chromatography in which separation is based mainly on differences in the ion-exchange affinities of the sample components. (Source: IUPAC; https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2017-0111) (Source: Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 16.3 [...] )
IC - Ion Chromatography
Ion Exchange Chromatography
Instrument used for measuring carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur or oxygen content in organic and other types of materials. Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: CHNS/O ELEMENTAL ANALYZERS Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: In Situ/Laboratory Instruments Instrument_Class: Chemical Meters/Analyzers Short_Name: CHNS/O ELEMENTAL ANALYZERS End_Group Online_Resource: http://las.perkinelmer.com/content/RelatedMaterials/Brochures/BRO_2400SeriesIICHNSOelementalAnalyzer.pdf Creation_Date: 2009-10-15 End_Group (Source: Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 16.3 [...] )
EA - Elemental Analysis
Potentiometric electrochemical sensor that measures pH as a linear function of electrode potential. Measurement principles or methods include the use of an ion-selective electrode (see glass pH-sensitive electrode), ion-selective field effect transistor, metal-metal oxide electrodes, or redox electrode (e.g. hydrogen electrode, quinhydrone electrode). (Source: IUPAC; https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2018-0109)
pH Measurement
Grain-size Analysis: Method of studying soils, sediments, sands, or rock by determining the size, distribution, and proportion of selected particles. (use for grainsize analysis, granulometry, particle-size analysis) (Source: USGS; https://apps.usgs.gov/thesaurus/term-simple.php?thcode=2&code=493)
Particle Size Analysis
Grain Size Analysis, Grain Size Distribution, Laser Diffraction Analyzer, Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analysis, Laser Diffraction Particle Sizing Analyzer, Laser Diffractometer, Particle Size Measurement, Particle Sizing, Particle Sizing Laser Diffraction Analyzer
UV-VIS-NIR Spectrophotometry
UV-VIS-NIR Spectroscopy
Sample dissolution with simultaneous matrix simplification. (Source: IUPAC; https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0903)
Digestion
Milling
Sieving

Laboratory Keywords

In addition to the instruments and analytical methods listed above, these keywords help to describe the work done in the laboratory. This may include the type of samples, standard materials, specific preparative or analytical methods and specific instrument characteristics.

Soil Physical Measuring Station

Disciplines

Geoscience > Geochemistry > Geochemistry
Geochemistry
Interdisciplinary > Pedology > Soil ecology
Soil ecology
Interdisciplinary > Pedology > Pedology
Pedology

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Soil Laboratory

UP - University of Potsdam

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