Helps to learn the secrets of soil chemistry and its role in agriculture and the environment. This book also helps to examine the fundamental laws of soil chemistry, how they affect dissolution, cation and anion exchange, and other reactions.

The fourth edition of a bestseller, this volume is a comprehensive treatment of all topics in the area of soil chemistry. It emphasizes the basics of chemical reactions in soil underscored by the fundamental law of equilibrium and the law of mass action. The book applies simple statistics based on the Nernst equation and applies basic laws in weathering, pedology, and chelation. New topics in this edition include String Theory as a new model for atoms, the concept of soil as an electrochemical cell, oxygen revolution, hypoxia, and hydrotropism.

"...written in a clear and concise manner and makes cross-reference between sections to help the reader; it also has a detailed index which is essential in a book of this nature...useful to have on the shelf to pick up when you wish to seek information about soil chemistry."-Stephen Nortcliff, in Experimental Agriculture, Vol. 47 (3) "...bridges the gap between pure chemistry and soil science and presents soil as a basic entity in a wide range of disciplines." -Bulletin of the International Society of Soil Science "Included in this text are many interesting historic details and other items of information usually overlooked in most recent highly focused textbooks...provides interesting and...useful background and supplementary reading for any course in soil chemistry...a valuable addition to all soils libraries, both public and private." -Soil Science