When studying metal sorption by soils, the potential influence of environmental and solution parameters on the experimental systems cannot be ignored. Characteristics of the soil mineral surfaces are the final determinative factors in whether a metal ion will be sorbed, but soil‐solution composition affects both mineral surface properties and whether the metal ions will be in forms that can react with the surfaces. Examples of factors affecting sorption of metals by soil surfaces include ionic strength, cations, anions, and/or organic ligands present in solution, solution pH, and solution metal concentration. In addition, sorption will be affected by external factors such as pressure, temperature, soil/solution ratio, and the manner in which soils to be studied are sampled and stored before investigation. To date, there has been little attempt to standardize experimental protocol, so results obtained using varied systems in different laboratories cannot be readily compared. An initial suggestion that all sorption studies include at least one treatment meeting minimal standards of ionic strength (0.01), background electrolyte (NaNO3), pH (between 5.5 and 6.0), and temperature (25 ± 3°C) is presented as a first step toward enabling improved ability to make interlaboratory comparisons.
Five dimensional Kaluza-Klein space-time is considered in the presence of cosmic string source in the frame work of scalar-tensor theory of gravitation proposed by Saez and Ballester (Phys. Lett. A 113, 467 (1985)). Exact cosmological models, which represent Nambu, Takabayasi and Reddy strings are presented. Some physical and kinematical properties of the models are also discussed.
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