A question about Assignment 6

Fragment of a discussion from Course talk:APBI403

Dear Maja In Question #2 b), it uses oven-dry organic matter content.Why use oven-dry organic matter not air-dry organic matter?

XiaoyingWu (talk)02:28, 30 October 2017

In Friday's lecture, I explained the reason why soil organic matter determined by the loss on ignition method on air-dried samples needs to be corrected. Please take a look at the lecture notes for last Friday (Oct 26) that are posted in Connect.

MajaKrzic (talk)04:25, 30 October 2017

Got it. Thank you.

XiaoyingWu (talk)05:26, 30 October 2017