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A new method of sampling very small amounts of soil solution (0.3 g) shows that soil solutions contain high concentrations and unusual proportions of metals. In the soils studied, the solution is close in both metal proportions and total metal mass to what may be taken up annually by the growth of plants at the sites sampled. Composition of soil solution varies seasonally and with depth in soil
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Hinkley, T. Concentrations of metals in very small volumes of soil solution. Nature 277, 444–446 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/277444a0
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