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Andosol vs Organosol - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between andosol and organosol

is that andosol is alternative form of andisol while organosol is a histosol, a soil comprising chiefly organic material.

andosol

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • organosol

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A histosol, a soil comprising chiefly organic material.
  • * 1990 , University of Michigan Southeast Asia Business Education and Resources Program, Southeast Asia Business , Issues 12-23, page 25,
  • On the other hand, in many parts of Kalimantan the climate is similar, and it also has large areas of yellow-red podsolic and organosol soils, which although having a rather low fertility, are suitable for some tree crops.
  • * 2000 , A. Clough, I. P. G. Widjaja-Adhi, J. Sri Adidingsih, A. Kosno, S. Fukai, Characterizing soil phosphorus and potassium status in lowland and upland rice-cropping regions of Indonesia'', T. P. Tuong (editor), ''Characterizing and Understanding Rainfed Environments , page 171,
  • Organosols , alluvials, and Latosols are also prevalent particularly in the coastal swamp lands in Sumatra that have been developed as part of the transmigration program (Widjaja-Adhi et al 1996).
  • * 2004 , Neil McKenzie, Australian Soils and Landscapes: An Illustrated Compendium , page 288,
  • Most Organosols' are wet soils and many have long been known as peats.Some of the less acidic ' Organosols in southern Australia have been drained and sown to pastures for dairying or used for intensive vegetable growing.
    See also
    * alfisol, andosol, entisol, grumusol, inceptisol, latosol, mollisol, oxisol, podsol, spodosol, ultisol, vermisol

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sol (colloid) comprising solid particles in an organic continuous medium.
  • * 1969 , Harold A. Sarvetnick, Polyvinyl Chloride , page 207,
  • With a suitable undercoating, the top coat may consist of an organosol or plastisol which is free from modifying resins.
  • * 1999 , Yoshikazu Tanabe, Macromolecular Science and Engineering: New Aspects , page 126,
  • By the use of metal carbonyls, which are highly soluble in many organic solvents, metal organosols are obtained by thermal decomposition of the metal carbonyls.
  • * 2006 , Gleb Borisovich Sergeev, Nanochemistry , page 62,
  • The spectrum of Pb–MA[lead methylacrylate] organosols was characterized by the presence of the absorption band of lead plasmon with the maximum at ~220 nm.
    See also
    * hydrosol * organo-solid sol * plastisol