1. What is the valence of Ca and what is its milliequivalent weight if the atomic weight is 40?
2. If a soil has 20 meq of CEC/100 g, how many milligrams of Ca2+ will this equal? How many grams?
3. If a soil contains 5% organic matter and 10% kaolinite clay, what is a reasonable estimate of its CEC per 100 g?
4. A soil has a CEC of 24 meq/100 g. How many grams of Na+ will it take to saturate the CEC? (At wt Na+ = 23)
5. If a soil can hold 50 mg of Mg2+ per 100 g, how many mg of K+ could it hold?
6. A quantity of 100 g of soil has a CEC of 5 meq. How may negatively charged sites does this soil have?
7. A soil was determined to have 12.5 meq/100 g of CEC. How many cmole/kg would this equal?
8. Convert 3 cmol/kg soil Ca2+ into parts per million (ppm).