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The 21 pages that link to Cation-Exchange Capacity, each with the reason it gives.

• Soil fertilityRelated: It helps determine how well soil holds nutrient cations such as potassium, calcium, and magnesium.

• FertilizerRelated: It helps explain why soils differ in their retention of fertilizer nutrients.

• Soil pHRelated: Exchange sites help regulate acidity by holding hydrogen and aluminum ions.

• Clay mineralRelated: Clay-mineral surfaces can bind exchangeable cations, affecting soils and water chemistry.

• ZeoliteRelated: Aluminum substitutions create framework charge that zeolites balance with exchangeable cations.

• BiocharRelated: Surface chemistry can let biochar retain nutrient cations in soil.

• AluminosilicateRelated: Negatively charged aluminosilicate frameworks can hold and exchange compensating cations.

• LeachingRelated: Soils with greater exchange capacity can retain some dissolved nutrients against downward transport.

• PhyllosilicateRelated: Charged surfaces and interlayers let many phyllosilicates exchange nutrient and contaminant cations.

• Soil aggregationRelated: Exchangeable ions can reduce repulsion between charged particles and support flocculation.

• Isomorphous substitutionRelated: Substitution-generated charge helps determine how many cations a clay can exchange.

• Soil amendmentRelated: Clay and organic matter amendments can alter how soil holds nutrient cations.

• KaoliniteRelated: Kaolinite has relatively low exchange capacity compared with many other clays.

• Soil testingRelated: It helps interpret how well a soil can hold nutrient cations.

• Soil acidificationRelated: Exchange sites buffer acidity by holding nutrient cations and aluminum.

• Volcanic soilRelated: Allophane and organic matter can give volcanic soils substantial, pH-dependent nutrient retention.

• Soil chemistryRelated: It measures how strongly clay and organic matter can hold nutrient cations.

• GeophagiaRelated: This property helps explain how clay-rich soils interact with nutrients and toxins in the gut.

• HectoriteRelated: Hectorite’s charged layers bind exchangeable cations at their surfaces and between layers.

• LoamRelated: Clay and organic matter give many loams surfaces that hold plant nutrients.