LIMING

līmˈĭng, application to the soil of calcium in various forms, generally as ground limestone, but also as marl, chalk, shells, or hydrated lime. Lime benefits soil by neutralizing acidity, improving texture, and increasing the activity of soil microorganisms. It enables bacteria on the roots of legumes, e.g., alfalfa and clover, to secure essential nitrogen from the air, increasing soil fertility. It also increases the available phosphorus in soils. The value of liming was recognized in ancient Rome, and it was common in medieval France and England. Some 17 million tons of lime are sold annually in the United States. In 1987, 264,000 United States farms applied lime on 12.5 million acres.

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books on: Liming  - 375 results

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West Meets East: Americans Adopt Chinese Children
Book by Richard Tessler, Gail Gamache, Liming Liu; Bergin & Garvey, 1999
Subjects: Chinese American Children--Family Relationships, Family Life Surveys--United States, Intercountry Adoption--China, Intercountry Adoption--United States, Interracial Adoption--China, Interracial Adoption--United States
...Richard Tessler, Gail Gamache, and Liming Liu. p. cm. Includes bibliographical...Gamache, Gail, 1938- . II. Liu, Liming, 1954- . III. Tide. HV875.58.C6T47...by Richard Tessler, Gail Gamache, and Liming Liu All rights reserved. No portion of...
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Managing Environmental Pollution
Book by Andrew Farmer; Routledge, 1997
...have to be considered before catchment liming is undertaken Farmer, 1992 . These are...these lakes may be naturally acidic and so liming would not be justified. 2 If the lime...first place Krester and Colquhoun, 1984 . Liming these lakes may prove futile. 3 If the...
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Soils and Environment
Book by S. Ellis, A. Mellor; Routledge, 1995
...and surface water acidity, including liming, sensible forestry management and reduction of acid emissions into the atmosphere. Liming has long been practised on agricultural...aluminium and manganese toxicity White 1987 . Liming materials most commonly used include ground...
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The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach
Book by Daniel Miller, Don Slater; Berg, 2000
Subjects: Computers And Civilization, Internet--Social Aspects--Trinidad
...on or through the Internet. In fact, liming was the word generally used to describe...The Internet comes to be seen simply as liming extended to just another social space...Plate 4.3 . Even to a non-Trini, liming could perfectly describe the flow of time...
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The Transformation of Rural Scotland: Social Change and the Agrarian Economy, 1660-1815
Book by T. M. Devine; John Donald, 1999
Subjects: Agriculture--Social Aspects--Scotland, Scotland--Economic Conditions, Scotland--Rural Conditions, Scotland--Social Conditions, Social Change--Scotland, Sociology, Rural--Scotland
...remained more common and more important. Liming could be a costly operation, mainly because...enclosure of land was usually followed by liming of the fields at a rate of 400-600 bushels...standards. As one observer put it, first, liming produces visible increases in fertility...
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journal articles on: Liming  - 79 results

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Liming Wang and John Davis. China's Grain Economy: The Challenge of Feeding More Than a Billion
Journal article by Tian Weiming; China Review International, Vol. 10, 2003
Subjects: China's Grain Economy: The Challenge of Feeding More than a Billion (Book)
Liming Wang and John Davis. Chinas Grain Economy: The Challenge of Feeding More Than a Billion. by Tian Weiming Aldershot, UK: Ashgate...
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An Artificial-Neural-Network-Based, Constrained CA Model for Simulating Urban Growth
Journal article by Qingfeng Guan, Liming Wang, Keith C. Clarke; Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 32, 2005
Subjects: Cartography, Cellular automata, Data processing, Electronic data processing, Neural networks--Usage, Urban geography
...Constrained CA Model for Simulating Urban Growth. by Qingfeng Guan , Liming Wang , Keith C. Clarke Introduction A classical cellular automata...guan@geog.ucsb.edu . Phone: (805)893-2705. Liming Wang, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources...
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The Role of Sse1 in the de Novo Formation and Variant Determination of the [Psi^sup +^
Journal article by Qing Fan, Kyung-Won Park, Zhiqiang Du, Kevin A. Morano, Liming Li; Vol. 177, 2007
Subjects: Cells, DNA Primers, DNA, Fungal, HSP110 Heat-Shock Proteins, Influence, Prions, Proteins, Roles, SSE1 protein, S cerevisiae, SUP35 protein, S cerevisiae, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Spongiform encephalopathies
...Formation and Variant Determination of the Psi^sup +^ Prion by Qing Fan , Kyung-Won Park , Zhiqiang Du , Kevin A. Morano , Liming Li IN the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the non- Mendelian genetic element PSI^sup +^ is referred to as a prion...
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De Novo Appearance and "strain" Formation of Yeast Prion [Psi^sup +^
Journal article by Kyung-Won Park, Ji-Sook Hahn, Qing Fan, Dennis J. Thiele, Liming Li; Vol. 173, 2006
Subjects: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Genetics, Mutation, Prions, Spongiform encephalopathies, Yeast
...Are Regulated by the Heat-shock Transcription Factor by Kyung-Won Park , Ji-Sook Hahn , Qing Fan , Dennis J. Thiele , Liming Li PRIONS or proteinaceous infectious particles are generally considered to be responsible for the class of fatal mammalian...
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Effect of Cultural Environment on Earnings Manipulation: a Five Asia-pacific Country Analysis
Journal article by Liming Guan, Hamid Pourjalali, Partha Sengupta, Jenny Teruya; Multinational Business Review, Vol. 13, 2005
Subjects: Accruals, Asia-Pacific region, Cultural differences, Earnings management, Studies
Effect of Cultural Environment on Earnings Manipulation: a Five Asia-pacific Country Analysis by Liming Guan , Hamid Pourjalali , Partha Sengupta , Jenny Teruya (ProQuest-CSA LLC: ... denotes text stops here in original.) INTRODUCTION...
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On Your Mark ..
Magazine article by David Schneider, Jessica Madoc-Jones, Guo Liming; The China Business Review, Vol. 20, November 1993
Subjects: Energy policy, Energy shortages, Foreign investment, Market potential, Peoples Republic of China, Power supply, Problems, Trade promotion
...Mark ... by David Schneider , Jessica Madoc-Jones , Guo Liming Chinas plan to add at least 15,000MW of new capacity each...embassys commercial section from May-September 1993. Guo Liming, formerly a commercial assistant at the embassy, works for...
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Power Plays
Magazine article by David Schneider, Jessica Madoc-Jones, Guo Liming; The China Business Review, Vol. 20, November 1993
Subjects: Decentralization, Energy policy, Energy shortages, Federal government, Joint ventures, Local government, Manycompanies, Organizational structure, Peoples Republic of China, Private enterprise
...Power Plays by David Schneider , Jessica Madoc-Jones , Guo Liming More than 120 million people in 32 Chinese counties live "virtually...embassys commercial section from May-September 1993. Guo Liming, formerly a commercial assistant at the embassy, works for...
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Has the Rain Become a Drizzle?
Magazine article by Don Hinrichsen; Scandinavian Review, Vol. 97, Spring 2010
Subjects: Acid rain, Aquatic ecosystems, Emissions, Forest soils, Fossil fuels, Groundwater, Heavy metals, Industrial plant emissions, Lakes, Power plants, Precipitation
...Norwegian Pollution Control Authority was liming 3,000 lakes in the southern part of...carried out detailing the impact of the liming program on the health of acidified waters...million). "But you need to remember that liming is only an activity to keep plants and...
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Optimal Crop Selection Using Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms
Magazine article by Ricardo Brunelli, Christian Von Lücken; AI Magazine, Vol. 30, Summer 2009
Subjects: Agricultural production, Agriculture, Algorithms, Alternatives, Corn, Crops, Environmental economics, Environmental impact, Expected values, Farmers, Objectives, Problems, Resource allocation, Standard deviation, Studies, Sustainable development, Variable costs
...nutrients and acidity through fertilizing and liming, making productive agriculture possible...minimize the costs of fertilizing and liming, (2) to minimize the total cost of...each crop. Optimal fertilization and liming values depend on crop requirements and...
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In the Works
Magazine article by Jessica Poppele; The China Business Review, Vol. 21, July 1994
Subjects: Environmental protection, Grants, International, Ozone, Peoples Republic of China, World Bank
...Second-round grants include: * Liming Chemical Industry Research Institute $457,000 in grant support will allow Liming to improve its new poyol production...polyols. As part of the project, Liming will in turn provide technical assistance...
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Liming around in Unspoilt Paradise
Newspaper article by Chris Higham; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), October 24, 1999
Liming around in Unspoilt Paradise. by Chris Higham...veteran of 20 years. "Oh, those boys are liming around," said Mike in response to my pointless...capital, Scarborough. According to Mike, liming around plays a substantial part in the life...
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Lime Time; ISABEL MOHAN Finds New Ways to Do Nothing in Tobago
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), April 23, 2011
...MOHAN HANDS up who has any idea what "liming" is? I had no idea until I arrived on...spend a whole week doing it. You see, "liming" just means hanging out, socialising...common with its North Yorkshire namesake. Liming at the Blue Haven is a pretty glamorous...
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New Product Corrects Soil Acidity
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 28, 2009
Subjects: Fertilizer industry, Hydrogen-ion concentration, Magnesium, Magnesium (Metal), Soil acidity, Water quality, pH
...rsquo;s acidity. Thus, conventional liming is done before each planting season and...gives the same benefit of conventional liming but with relatively a lot less needed...laborious and more expensive conventional liming. Product launches are held in key vegetable...
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Chipotle in Round Lake Beach
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 22, 2010
...frequency components. Tellabs taps Liming NAPERVILLE Tellabs Inc. on Tuesday said it has named Dean Liming vice president of professional services...rapid growth of mobile Internet traffic. Liming joins Tellabs after working as Senior...
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Why Fishing Can't Fly in the Face of Global Warming; Angling A One-Degree Rise in River Temperature Would Lose 20 Invertebrate Families
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), March 11, 2008
Subjects: Air pollution, Global warming
...That was wonderful news proving that the liming scheme in the upper Teifi is working...the devastating effects of acid water liming the rivers and lakes in Wa les. I must...difficult. I saw some wonderful schemes of liming acidic waters in Scandinavia - but then...
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encyclopedia articles on: Liming  - 4 results

 
 
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Liming
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LIMING lim ing, application to the soil of calcium in various forms, generally...fertility. It also increases the available phosphorus in soils. The value of liming was recognized in ancient Rome, and it was common in medieval France and...
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Calcium Oxide
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...calcium cyanamide; in water softeners; and in mortars and cements. In agriculture it is used for treating acidic soils ( liming ). It is incandescent when heated to high temperatures; the Drummond light, or limelight, provides a brilliant white light...
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Calcium Hydroxide
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...When heated above 580 degrees Celsius it dehydrates, forming the oxide. Like the oxide, it has many uses, e.g., in liming soil, in sugar refining, and in preparing other compounds. It is a strong base and is widely used as an inexpensive alkali...
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Pasture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...be pastured after the crops are removed. Pastures that have been overgrazed and in which such soil-improving practices as liming, fertilizing, and seeding have been neglected lose a part of the feed nutrients required by livestock. Good management of...


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