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New Nitric Acid Method Could Make Australian Soils Productive
A U.S. report from Hobart notes experiments in New South Wales by agronomist R. Symmonds showing nitric acid treatment cures alkaline artesian soils. The method could unlock 640000 square miles of desert Australia for crops, using bore water, lime, and nitrates, with potential for large scale nitric acid production and export.
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