What does humic mean?
Humic means Of or relating to humus (the natural substance, not the food)..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Of or relating to humus (the natural substance, not the food)..
For waters with low concentrations of aquatic humics, the coagulant dose is controlled not by the humics but by the properties of the coagulant (pH and solubility for metal coagulants).
A number of recent publications […] claim previous studies have overestimated the importance of the aromatic moieties present in humics […]
Freshwater chemists learned that rather than manipulate large volumes of water through a complex procedure in order to extract a few milligrams of humics or fulvics, a simple adsorption column of certain resins could collect […]
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Humic means Of or relating to humus (the natural substance, not the food)..
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For waters with low concentrations of aquatic humics, the coagulant dose is controlled not by the humics but by the properties of the coagulant (pH and solubility for metal coagulants).
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