Verification of the prediction technique for the amount of adsorbed linuron on soils

Abstract

The Freundlich isotherm was used to estimate the adsorption of the herbicide linuron on 39 Japanese soils to confirm the suitability of the prediction technique used in atrazine adsorption. Linuron was adsorbed on the soils according to the Freundlich isotherm. In conjunction with the log K _F prediction equation derived from the soil characteristics, it was possible to predict the linuron adsorption. Comparison of the equations for linuron with those for atrazine, indicated that the difference in the intercept of the 1 / n regression line against log K _F reflected the adsorptive characteristics of the herbicides.

Key Words:

• adsorption
• atrazine
• Freundlich
• linuron, prediction