Pedosphere 1(2): 157--167, 1991
ISSN 1002-0160/CN 32-1315/P
©1991 Soil Science Society of China
Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science Press
Study on Water-Soluble Organic Reducing Substances. I. Determination of Organic Reducing Substances by Differential Pulse Voltammetry
WU YOU-XIAN, DING CHANG-PU
Institute of Soil Science, A cademia Sinica, P. O. Box 821, Nanjing 210008
ABSTRACT
      A new method was proposed for study of organic reducing substances in soils. According to the theoretical relationship between the voltammetric behaviors and reduction-oxidation reaction of reducing substances, the working conditions of differential pulse voltammetry (d.p. v.) for determining the organic reducing substances produced during the processes of the anaerobic decomposition of plant materials were established with a glass carbon electrode as working electrode, 1 M Ag-AgCl electrode with large area as reference electrode, 0.2 M NH4AC as supporting electrolyte and pH buffer solution, pulse amplitude (AE) of 25 mV, scan rate at 2 mV·S-1and scan potential ranging from -0.5 to +1.2 voltage(vs. M Ag-AgCl). The peak current proportional to the concentration of reducing substances, and the characteristic peak potential of each organic reducing substance were regarded as the quantitative and qualitative base, respectively.
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Citation: Wu, Y. X. and Ding, C. P. 1991. Study on Water-Soluble Organic Reducing Substances. I. Determination of Organic Reducing Substances by Differential Pulse Voltammetry. Pedosphere. 1(2): 157-167.
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