Abstract
In order to rationally apply potassium fertilizer, it is very important to realize the rapid and accurate evaluation of soil available potassium (K). Conventional methods are time-consuming, consumables-consuming and laborious. A high-efficiency method was proposed in this study to meet the demand for rapid evaluation, including rapid extraction, uniform evaporation and LIBS detection. To shorten the extraction time, we increased the oscillation frequency and removed the operation of dry filtration. Compared with the conventional extraction method of the Chinese national standard (CNS), the extraction time was reduced from 30 min to 2 min. In addition, we developed a uniform evaporation method for liquid–solid transformation on the batch-detection fixed area aluminum substrate. This method reduced the moisture interference. At the same time, increasing the liquid viscosity and restricting the liquid area and shape could reduce the coffee ring effect (CRE). The determination coefficient of the calibration curve by our method was 0.99, and the limit of quantitation reached 0.8 mg/kg. Real soil samples were taken as validation, and the average relative error between our method and the CNS method was 3.58%. The results indicate that our method combined with LIBS technology could provide a fast and accurate evaluation of soil available K.
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