Author: Dr. Abdel El Hadrami

Have you ever wondered if you have hard or soft water? Perhaps you’ve heard or been a part of a conversation regarding water being hard or soft and wondered what exactly that means. You may have also noticed scaling and deposits left by hard water on the interior or exterior of plumbing and pipes. Maybe […]

Harvesting more bushels on the same acreage over the years leads to a diminishing reserve of essential nutrients in the soil and to a lower nutrient density in the seed. Once grasslands, Western Canadian Prairie soils have been converted to agriculture, used for high value crops such as cereals, canola, pulses, potatoes and others. Crop […]

This article by Abdel Hadrami originally appared on agadvance.com Deliquescence by definition means to melt away or to disappear as if by melting. In chemistry, deliquescence refers to the conversion of a solid substance into a liquid as a result of absorption of moisture or water vapour from the air (Fig. 1). Solids always contain impurities, […]