Abstract
Abstract Potassium (K) fixation in soils treated with K‐rich fertilizer is important in limiting leaching of this ion, and thus the risk of high salinity in waters. We studied this capacity for aqueous suspensions of a group of soils of Galicia (N.W. Spain) and found that fixation increased with K dosage, increased slightly with contact time, and decreased with increasing temperature (between 3 and 40°C). Potassium fixation was barely influenced by the mineralogy of the clay fraction but was greater in soils with greater fine particle content. Modified Freundlich equation successfully modelled the effects of K addition, temperature, and contact time on fixation. The influence of temperature was greater in illitic soils than in mixed soils. The results indicate that Galician soils have little capacity for K fixation.
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