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Effects of CO2 on Spray Solution pH

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Michael P. Braverman and
James L. Griffin
Michael P. Braverman
Affiliation:
Dep. Plant Path. and Crop Physiol., 302 Life Sci. Bldg., Baton Rouge, LA 70803
James L. Griffin
Affiliation:
Dep. Plant Path. and Crop Physiol., 302 Life Sci. Bldg., Baton Rouge, LA 70803
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Abstract

The pH of deionized water, initially adjusted to a pH of 6 to 9, all decreased to near pH 5 upon pressurization with CO2 in a backpack spray system. When deionized water contained bicarbonate (NaHCO3 or KHCO3) at 0 to 800 mg/L to buffer against a pH decrease from CO2 pressurization the return to their initial pH was more rapid than deionized water alone regardless of bicarbonate source. Acidification of spray solution following CO2 pressurization of 138, 276, or 414 kPa was similar and bicarbonate had a greater effect than spray pressure. Addition of acidifying buffer and bicarbonate to the solution resulted in an initial and post-CO2 pressurization pH range of less than one pH unit. All spray solution pH levels returned to near their initial pH following depressurization, indicating that the pH decrease was not permanent. Rate of recovery from acidification with CO2 increased with initial pH and bicarbonate concentration.

Keywords

Acidifying bufferbicarbonateCO2 powered sprayer

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Weed Technology , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 1995, pp. 23 - 28
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Copyright © 1995 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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