Ultrasonic characterization on fertilizer solutions in view to sustainable agriculture

Abstract

The volumetric and sound parameters are very helpful tools to predict the different kinds of intermolecular interactions and their strengths associated with them. It is revealed that the soil salinity problem incessantly spreads due to continuous changes in climate, excessive use of groundwater, and bulk use of low-quality water for irrigation. Excessive soil salinity reduces the many agricultural crop production, which is particularly sensitive throughout the development and growth of the plant. The effect of salinity could be controlled or counteracted by the application of suitable fertilizers into the saline soils. In this manuscript, numerous acoustic as well as thermodynamic parameters of ammonium sulphate (AS) fertilizer of different weight fractions at 293.15 K temperature have been studied. The results obtained, from calculated different acoustic and volumetric parameters expose the existence of strong interactions in the system taken for investigation, this depends on the ilk of molecules. The fertilizer: ammonium sulphate shows, maximum molecular interactions at higher concentrations in all the solvents (Water, Sodium Chloride, and Magnesium Chloride), and this can again castoff in view as a remedy for soil salinity using interactions among saline salts and fertilizers.