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Method and product for treating soil to suppress the nitrification of ammonium nitrogen therein

US4317672A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 19, 1979
Grant dateMar 2, 1982
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Expiry dateJul 19, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC05G3/90
  • WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to crop culture and is particularly concerned with practices for conserving soil nitrogen and for supplying the soil nitrogen requirements for plant nutrition. These practices involve the employment, as active agent, of a novel butane compound having the formula ##STR1## wherein X is H or ##STR2## R is H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl; R' is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy or halo and PA0 n is an integer from 0 to 2.

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