organosol
English
Etymology 1
From organo- (“organic”) + -sol (“soil”).
Noun
organosol (plural organosols)
- A histosol, a soil comprising chiefly organic material.
- 1990, University of Michigan Southeast Asia Business Education and Resources Program, Southeast Asia Business, Issues 12-23, page 25,
- On the other hand, in many parts of Kalimantan the climate is similar, and it also has large areas of yellow-red podsolic and organosol soils, which although having a rather low fertility, are suitable for some tree crops.
- 2000, A. Clough, I. P. G. Widjaja-Adhi, J. Sri Adidingsih, A. Kosno, S. Fukai, Characterizing soil phosphorus and potassium status in lowland and upland rice-cropping regions of Indonesia, T. P. Tuong (editor), Characterizing and Understanding Rainfed Environments, page 171,
- Organosols, alluvials, and Latosols are also prevalent particularly in the coastal swamp lands in Sumatra that have been developed as part of the transmigration program (Widjaja-Adhi et al 1996).
- 2004, Neil McKenzie, Australian Soils and Landscapes: An Illustrated Compendium, page 288,
- Most Organosols are wet soils and many have long been known as peats. […] Some of the less acidic Organosols in southern Australia have been drained and sown to pastures for dairying or used for intensive vegetable growing.
- 1990, University of Michigan Southeast Asia Business Education and Resources Program, Southeast Asia Business, Issues 12-23, page 25,
See also
- alfisol, andosol, entisol, grumusol, inceptisol, latosol, mollisol, oxisol, podsol, spodosol, ultisol, vermisol
Etymology 2
From organo- (“organic”) + sol (“colloid”).
Noun
organosol (plural organosols)
- A sol (colloid) comprising solid particles in an organic continuous medium.
- 1969, Harold A. Sarvetnick, Polyvinyl Chloride, page 207,
- With a suitable undercoating, the top coat may consist of an organosol or plastisol which is free from modifying resins.
- 1999, Yoshikazu Tanabe, Macromolecular Science and Engineering: New Aspects, page 126,
- By the use of metal carbonyls, which are highly soluble in many organic solvents, metal organosols are obtained by thermal decomposition of the metal carbonyls.
- 2006, Gleb Borisovich Sergeev, Nanochemistry, page 62,
- The spectrum of Pb–MA[lead methylacrylate] organosols was characterized by the presence of the absorption band of lead plasmon with the maximum at ~220 nm.
- 1969, Harold A. Sarvetnick, Polyvinyl Chloride, page 207,