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Physico-chemical and chemical properties of some coconut coir dusts for use as a peat substitute for containerised ornamental plants.
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Physico-chemical and chemical characteristics of 13 coconut coir dust samples from Asia, America and Africa were evaluated as peat alternatives, and all properties studied differed significantly between and within sources, and from the control Sphagnum peat.About:
This article is published in Bioresource Technology.The article was published on 2002-05-01. It has received 322 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Coir.read more
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Kinetic and calorimetric study of the adsorption of dyes on mesoporous activated carbon prepared from coconut coir dust.
Jeremias de Souza Macedo,Nivan B. da Costa Junior,Luís Eduardo Almeida,Eunice F.S. Vieira,Antonio R. Cestari,Iara F. Gimenez,Neftalí L. V. Carreño,Ledjane Silva Barreto +7 more
TL;DR: Calorimetric studies reveal that dyes/AC interaction forces are correlated with the pH of the solution, which can be related to the charge distribution on the AC surface, which is an economically favorable requisite for the activated carbon described in this work.
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Reuse of waste materials as growing media for ornamental plants.
TL;DR: A mixture between pine bark or coconut fibre and 30% of biosolid compost in volume gave the best results, but the lower cost of the pine bark than the coconut fibre substrate indicated the use of the PB+30% CSS.
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Influence of particle size on physical and chemical properties of coconut coir dust as container medium
TL;DR: The influence of particle size on physical, physico-chemical and chemical properties of a coconut coir dust from Mexico was studied in this article, where the authors found that the particle size significantly affected the physical properties, especially the air-water relationships.
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The total costs of soil degradation in England and Wales
Anil Graves,Joe Morris,L. K. Deeks,R. J. Rickson,M.G. Kibblewhite,James A. Harris,Timothy S. Farewell,I. Truckle +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and used an approach to derive the total economic cost of soil degradation in England and Wales, and made an estimate of degradation costs at the national scale for dominant combinations of land cover and soils.
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Chemical and physical properties of pruning waste compost and their seasonal variability.
TL;DR: Comparing the properties of PWC to those of peat and commercial growing medium, this material appears to be an acceptable component of a substrate for container-grown ornamental plants.
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Methods for dietary fiber, neutral detergent fiber, and nonstarch polysaccharides in relation to animal nutrition.
TL;DR: In addition to NDF, new improved methods for total dietary fiber and nonstarch polysaccharides including pectin and beta-glucans now are available and are also of interest in rumen fermentation.
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Source variation in physical and chemical properties of coconut coir dust
TL;DR: In this paper, chemical properties of cocos nucifera coir dust from 12 sources from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, or Indonesia have been analyzed, with the largest differences occurring for particle sizes <8.0 mm and 0.50 mm in diameter.