humus

How To Use humus In A Sentence

• Humus being highly colloidal, has the ability to adsorb and retain for future plant use many of the ions such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphates and ammonia which might be leached from the soil and lost in drainage.
• Antirrhinum species grow best in a fertile, moist, humus-rich soil in a sunny position.
• From this it appears that the bet was distasteful to Posthumus; it is not so offenceful to him as it should have been according to our modern temper; but this shortcoming, an unconscious shortcoming, is the only fault which Shakespeare will allow in his hero. The Man Shakespeare
• The thin sections of humus were observed under a polarizing binocular microscope at different magnifications.
• If it's sandy or stiff with clay, dig in humus to improve water retention and aeration.
• In sandy soils, humus acts like a sponge to catch and hold moisture.
• The gardener merely rakes back the mulch and exposes a few inches of bare soil, scratches a furrow, and covers the seed with humusy topsoil. Organic Gardener's Composting
• The humus decomposes further into a “load of loose molecules,” which are carried off by wind and water. Modern Science in the Bible
• At one particular stage of the process it is converted into one or other of two substances, called humin and ulmin, both insoluble in alkalies, and apparently identical with the insoluble humus of the soil; but when the decomposition is more advanced the products become soluble in alkalies, and then contain humic, ulmic, and geic acids, and finally, by a still further progress, crenic and apocrenic acids are formed as the result of an oxidation occurring at certain periods of the decay. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry
• · Making it impossible for the medium matter (formed as a result of incomplete dissolution) to mineralize rapidly, to continuously release energy and produce various NH4+ and PHO4 - ions, and to renew the humus in the soil. Chapter 6