Ammonium Sulphate as Fertilizer

The achievements of the chemical industry have long and firmly occupied an important place in human civilization. Ammonium sulfate is used by people in everyday life, with its help they bake bread and grow bread in the field, make synthetic fabrics and disinfect drinking water.

Formula

In the formula of ammonium sulfate (NH4) 2SO4, it is clearly seen that it contains nitrogen in the ammonium form. Nitrogen in this form is easier and more fully absorbed by plants than in the form of nitrates. On undeveloped, virgin soil for their transition into arable land, apply nitrogen in this form. And its presence in the soil layer has a powerful influence on the future harvest. The use of the ammonium form of nitrogen on the developed, cultivated soils will not give such impressive results, since it will pass from the nitrogen form to the nitrate form.

Physical and chemical properties

Ammonium sulphate is used in a variety of industries, including in the agricultural sector.In plant growing it is used exclusively in mixtures with various tukas, because in its pure form it will not be a complex fertilizer.

Breeders appreciate ammonium salts for quick returns.

Physical properties: transparent crystals, colorless and odorless. In ground form has the consistency of the powder. Sometimes the powder may be light yellow or pink. Virtually no sediment soluble in water and formic acid. Absolutely insoluble in ethanol, acetone and diethyl ether. Chemical compositionA: Ammonium sulphate is composed of sulfuric acid, nitrogen and water. The quantitative ratio of these elements in ammonium sulfate varies depending on the effects applied to the substance.

Benefit

Ammonium sulfate is a chemical substance with a huge range of applications in various sectors of modern industry.In the production of food in the Russian Federation, this chemical substance has been used since 1982.

In the food industry, stable protein compounds are cleaved with ammonium salts. This chemical substance does not harm the health of people; with its help, it even disinfects water (is chlorinated) in water intake facilities of millions of cities. In Russia, this substance is also called the ammonium salt of sulfuric acid, it is assigned the marking according to GOST: 9097-82. In addition, it is widely known as a food additive called E 517.

It is added to flour for baking bakery products (as a stabilizer and emulsifier): E 517 is a good nutrient medium for the development of yeast cultures.

This chemical is also used in textile mills. With the help of ammonium salts, viscose is produced. In the biochemical industry, ammonium sulfate is used in protein purification. But the farmers appreciated the benefit of ammonium fertilizers.

For soil

Ammonium sulfate is widespread in almost all regions.Farmers were convinced in practice: the presence of nitrogen and sulfur in its composition - it is such a powerful starter in the initial development of crops, that if ammonium is not used, a part of the future crop is lost.

Agronomists should take into account that the use of this mineral fertilizer is advisable on soils with alkaline and normal reactions, since its presence in soils increases their acidity.

For crops

Vegetables, exhilarated by ammonium dressings, build up a much larger root and leaf mass than can be traced in control plots with the same, but not fertilized, plantings. In comparison, root crops or green crops benefit from fertilized plots. Particularly responsive to this agrochemical substance are potatoes, beets, carrots, cabbage and greens.

Recommendations for use

It does not matter in which climatic zone ammonium sulphates are used. - They are suitable for any terrain.

Its application is especially successful in spring plowing; its nitrogen component allows plants to increase leaf mass at the beginning of the growing season.

You can spend 2 or 3 additional feeding in the middle of the growing cycle. They will be especially relevant if weather conditions are unfavorable (cold weather, drought). This has a positive effect on the overall result from the cultivation of garden and garden crops.

For what plants is suitable

Ammonium sulfate is useless to feed oats, flax, wheat, buckwheat, or soybean, as this fertilizer is not universal and is not suitable for these plants. But the use of this chemical for feeding cruciferous family gives amazingly good results.

The yield of cabbage, radish, daikon, radish, fodder and table beets increases significantly.

Potato fields

Potatoes react to the introduction of top-dressing with rapid growth, increasing the size of the potatoes and the starch content in them. The nitrogen component of the fertilizer prevents the potatoes from being affected by diseases such as heart rot and scab.

The most successful property of ammonium is that it does not accumulate in potato tubers and other root crops in the form of nitrates.

Cabbage fields

When feeding this chemical additive over cabbage, it is necessary to take into account the moment that it causes rapid growth of the vegetative mass. If this happens, the plant will not have time to tie a head of cabbage, and the cauliflower will go to the leaves and will not tie the heads.

But such consequences are, if the farmers carried out such dressing at the beginning of the growing season of cabbage. Fertilizers can be applied to cabbage plantations or during spring plowing, or 10 days after planting 30-day cabbage seedlings in the field.

Green beds

Ammonium supplements will be the best growth stimulant for all green crops. When they make greens easily increases a large sheet mass, which is important for a good harvest of spicy herbs. For dill, parsley, mint, thyme or mustard leaf supplementation with ammonium salts are useful at any stage of growth.

After the first mass cutting of greens, fertilizing with ammonium is obligatory, then the second crop will not yield to the first.

Mineral fertilizer is also used for fertilizing fruit orchards, which makes the products grown in them juicier and richer in sugars. Fruits last longer during long-term storage without rotting.

Terms and Dosage

Applying chemical fertilizers to get more yield, you need to strictly follow the established norms of consumption.

Fertilizer application rate:

• on cabbage fields: 10 square meters. m. - 300 g of the substance;
• for potatoes: 10 square meters. m of soil contribute 250-400 g of salts;
• fertilizer is applied to the green ridges at the rate of: 10 square meters. m. - 200 g of salts.

Ammonium sulfate is significantly different from other mineral complexes in that it will be perfectly assimilated by plants in the form of both liquid and dry dressings.

Food in the form of an aqueous solution will be absorbed immediately, and the planting of dry granules will be absorbed by the crops in a few days. The general application rate of ammonium salts - 300-400 g per 10 square meters. m

For the prevention of "acidification" of soils, the chemical is used together with lime-fluff or crushed chalk. Ammonium sulfate is mixed with lime (chalk) in a 1: 1 ratio.

In the resulting composition, you can add other mineral components. Do not include elements such as tomanshlag and wood ash in the mixture.

Benefits of using

This agricultural chemistry rightfully occupies the first place among mineral fertilizers.

This is a wonderful substance:

• does not cake and does not need special storage conditions;
• no residue and dissolves quickly in water;
• not dangerous to human life and health;
• retains nitrogen in the soil.

Not susceptibility to caking agrochemical preparation allows you to easily distribute it on the ground during the spring digging (plowing).

For this, the granules or powder are simply sprinkled in approximately equal amounts (based on the norm) on the ground. In case of uneven dry matter application, the situation will be corrected immediately after plowing. Ammonium salts quickly react to diffusion with the earth, and all their components are evenly distributed in the soil.

Such property as solubility in water, allows you to quickly feed the plantations, and feeding can be done both root and leaf.

Since ammonium ions become practically immobile in combination with soils, nitrogen does not leave the top layer of soil for a long time, does not evaporate and not washed by precipitation. This contributes to the full consumption of fertilizer plants.

To prevent the nitrogen from ammonium sulphate from changing to the nitrate form, it is better to fertilize the plantations with ammonium nitrate solution. This will not allow the nitrogen to react to nitrification with the earth. Ammonium salts are good because nitrates do not accumulate in the crop, even with complete non-compliance with the norms of introduction. When applying fertilizers with this fertilizer, workers can do without workwear and masks, since this substance does not emit toxic fumes and is not harmful to the human body.

As evidence, it is possible to accept that a chemical substance is used in the manufacture of food products, with its help it is used to break down protein.

Other nitrogenous fertilizers, although slightly cheaper than ammonium sulphate, are not expensive, but are not as convenient to store as they lose flowability and become caked (urea), some can explode when overheated (ammonium nitrate). And ammonium salts will increase the yield in the vast areas of agricultural holdings, and in small personal plots.