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Agriculture · Q219

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Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 219

Q219

Salt index is given by

A.
Puri
Answer
B.
Sorenson
C.
Roy
D.
Senapati

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
The salt index is a numeric ratio of the increase in osmotic pressure produced by a selected fertilizer product compared to that produced by the same weight of sodium nitrate, where sodium nitrate is assigned a relative value of 100.
The salt index is given by Puri.