Ammonia volatilization from urea nitricphosphate and urea applied to the soil surface |
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Authors: | C. B. Christianson |
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Affiliation: | (1) Agro-Economic Division, International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), P.O. Box 2040, 35662 Muscle Shoals, AL, USA |
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Abstract: | Urea nitricphosphate (UNP) is an N-P fertilizer prepared by solubilizing phosphate ore with nitric acid and conditioning the product with urea. The product is acidic, and its nutrient analysis is 23-12-0. Urea makes up 74% of the N component of this material and the remainder comes from the nitrate added as nitric acid. In volatilization trials, UNP lost significantly less N than did urea in a noncalcareous soil (13 and 31% respectively). In calcareous soils the urea-N component of UNP exhibited loss patterns similar to those of urea. Soil pH remained stable at the center of the granule placement site during UNP hydrolysis, thereby reducing NH3 loss, whereas the pH of the same soil treated with urea rose almost 1.9 units. The urea component of UNP appeared to diffuse from the center of the acidic microsite allowing hydrolysis to take place and permitting limited NH3 volatilization to occur. UNP appears to be an attractive NP fertilizer in terms of nutrient analysis and resistance of the N component to volatile N losses as NH3. |
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Keywords: | Multinutrient fertilizer phosphate rock urea nitricphosphate (UNP) nitric acid acidulation ammonia volatilization |
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