Introductions to Soil Mineralogy by Nafiu Abdu PDF free download

Nafiu Abdu Introductions to Soil Mineralogy PDF, was published in 2018 and uploaded for 300-level Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine students of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), offering SLM301 course. This ebook can be downloaded for FREE online on this page.

Introductions to Soil Mineralogy ebook can be used to learn Soil Mineralogy, soil fertility, soil chemistry, pedology, Soil composition; soil air, soil water, kaolinite, Illite, Smectite, Mixed layer Clays Silica minerals, Iron, aluminum oxides, hydroxide, oxyhydroxides, Differential thermal analysis, X-Ray diffraction analysis, Infrared spectroscopy.

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