What Inside The Soil?

Abstract

Soil chemistry is the study of soil's chemical properties. Mineral composition, organic matter, and environmental conditions all influence soil chemistry. J. Thomas Way, a consulting chemist for the Royal Agricultural Society in England, conducted numerous tests on how soils exchange ions in the early 1850s and he is considered the father of soil chemistry. Soil chemistry was primarily concerned with chemical processes in the soil that contribute to pedogenesis or effect plant growth until the late 1960s. Concerns regarding environmental pollution, organic and inorganic soil contamination, and potential ecological and environmental health problems have developed since then. As a result, in soil chemistry, the focus has changed from pedology and agricultural soil science to environmental soil science.