Perhaps the first use of the world "fixation" was in reference to nitrogen, following the famous discovery: of Hellriegel and Willfarth. Fixation was later on applied to immobilization of phosphorus by soil. Now the importance of potash-fixation on the lines of nitrogen and phosphate-fixation has been fully appreciated and investigated. Accordingly the phenomenon of potash-fixation was studied on our soils.
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