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cation exchange capacity

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-001104

The sum total of exchangeable cations that a soil can adsorb. Expressed in centimoles per kilogram of soil (or of other adsorbing material such as clay).

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-001104
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesUS Environmental Protection Agency; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsoion exchange capacity; soil chemical properties; cation exchange; exchangeable cations
TranslationsSpanish: capacidad de intercambio de cationes
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-001104",
  "term": "cation exchange capacity",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "The sum total of exchangeable cations that a soil can adsorb. Expressed in centimoles per kilogram of soil (or of other adsorbing material such as clay).",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "ion exchange capacity",
    "soil chemical properties",
    "cation exchange",
    "exchangeable cations"
  ],
  "references": [
    "US Environmental Protection Agency",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "capacidad de intercambio de cationes"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/cation-exchange-capacity/"
}

Record 1,104 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.