sand85 - 2/4/2026 16:35

Lol.  I don’t claim any agronomy credentials.  I am an engineer with an understanding of the physical world, the scientific method and a basic understanding of some of the soil processes.  I am a great audience for your claim or maybe hypothesis because I am not a product of an agronomy program and don’t think I really have many preconceptions about agronomy and soil and am very interested in non-traditional approaches.

I am not making any claims here.  I am asking questions to you who have made vague references to things covered in textbooks and contained within soil geology.  I am asking you to substantiate your claims with any kind of a specific.  As a suggestion, I would propose you pick from an array of elements from the periodic table, compounds composed of those elements, or biological cells and propose a specific mechanism by which a compound changes how it is ionically or chemically bonded or undergoes a physical or biological change into a different form .  I understand basic things like stoichiometry (if you need 2 widgets of A and 1 of B to make C, if you have 10 of each you can still only make 5 widgets of C) and mass balance (you can’t appear matter in the soil, it has to go in or come out somewhere if the total amount of mass changes).  Then, once we have established a mechanism, maybe you can give some evidence on how the rates of how those mechanisms proceed over time and what the controlling factors for any change in rate might be.  

Seems like that would stimulate a vigorous discussion and educate the community, including me?