Anybody know of any good kits to test for barium, aluminum, strontium, etc?

I get soil tested from A&M pretty frequently. They have some unique tests. If they don't have what you need, I bet they can point you in the right direction.

https://soiltesting.tamu.edu

Kingdom Kid said:

---

Anybody know of any good kits to test for barium, aluminum, strontium, etc?

---

Why do you care?

Unless you're on top of a toxic waste dump, I can't imagine any of those hitting levels that you would notice.

Aluminum is one of the most abundant elements in soil. This is akin to collecting outdoor air samples and testing them for O2.

Quote:

---

stratospheric aerosol injection

---

I tried Googling this, and this is apparently a term used for spraying things into the stratosphere, to cool the earth and combat "global warming".

So....

Are we talking



???

Man the board has gotten weird

It will take one of the labs that does stuff for municipal sewage waste and such. Seems like I had used one out of Kentucky not too long ago

Kingdom Kid said:

---

Anybody know of any good kits to test for barium, aluminum, strontium, etc?

---

Just make a very large tinfoil hat for your yard...

It's in the contrails man, they've been purposefully dumping that **** on us for decades.

9 post rook. His next post is that hogs ate his gramma.

SanAntoneAg said:

---

9 post rook. His next post is that hogs ate his gramma.

---

Right...


Was this a bot post?

Naveronski said:

---

SanAntoneAg said:

---

9 post rook. His next post is that hogs ate his gramma.

---

Right...


Was this a bot post?

---

I don't think so. Only posting history is a pretty decent back and forth about Sendero for mesquites. Maybe he just wants to make sure the chemicals he puts down don't react to the ones the government has been spraying us with from airplanes.

cupofjoe04 said:

---

Naveronski said:

---

SanAntoneAg said:

---

9 post rook. His next post is that hogs ate his gramma.

---

Right...


Was this a bot post?

---

I don't think so. Only posting history is a pretty decent back and forth about Sendero for mesquites. Maybe he just wants to make sure the chemicals he puts down don't react to the ones the government has been spraying us with from airplanes.

---

You're right.

Joined 2012.
First post 2024.

Probably just a normal human.

Not to derail this thread...
I have a friend in Tennessee who firmly believes that airliners are spraying stuff into the atmosphere.
I have another, more whack-a-doodle friend in Arizona who believes this AND had found special indoor paint to block electromagnetic waves. Painted every room in his house.

Now, in partial disclosure, I have done some things to my house using 4'x8' Level III panels. So, I really cannot cast that first stone.

Reportedly living close to the very large electric transmission lines is not good for your health and best to avoid extended exposure.

Well technically airlines are "spraying stuff" into the atmosphere, its called exhaust, and sometimes "blue water", and if there is an emergency, fuel, and if the **** hits the fan, all sorts of particles as the plane explodes.

Good old fashioned lead paint does a pretty good job interfering with the EM spectrum, but good foot of concrete tends to work better, the really nasty stuff nothing stops, Gamma Rays are OP.

SunrayAg said:

---

Kingdom Kid said:

---

Anybody know of any good kits to test for barium, aluminum, strontium, etc?

---

Just make a very large tinfoil hat for your yard...

---

Too much aluminum would leach into the yard.

Kingdom Kid said:

---

Anybody know of any good kits to test for barium, aluminum, strontium, etc?

---

On the off-chance this is a serious question, there are no reliable "test kits" you can use at home like a pH kit that I am aware of. The two best ways to get an idea of what you have are to send a sample to a lab or to use an X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Detector that you can rent from various environmental supply companies. The lab is going to give you very accurate results and if you run TAL metals by Method 6020A or 6020B, you will get 23 metals analyzed down to ~100 part per billion levels. There are lots of places that can run that method on soil, such as Pace Analytical, ALS Labs, Eurofins, SGS, etc. and it will generally cost about $125 per sample. The XRF rents for a few hundred dollars per day and will give you higher detection limits and less accuracy, but you can test dozens of samples in a day. The XRF is best used with a few samples also sent to a lab to "ground truth" your results.

When looking at results, keep in mind that there is a wide range of potential background concentrations that may exist, depending on what soil type you are in and what historical practices happened in your area. Texas publishes a list of "Texas Specific" metals background concentrations (https://www.tceq.texas.gov/downloads/remediation/trrp/background.pdf), but keep in mind that some metals, like aluminum, iron, etc. will vary widely depending on what minerals make up the actual soil, and being "above background" for those minerals is not necessarily representative of contamination.

Naveronski said:

---

cupofjoe04 said:

---

Naveronski said:

---

SanAntoneAg said:

---

9 post rook. His next post is that hogs ate his gramma.

---

Right...


Was this a bot post?

---

I don't think so. Only posting history is a pretty decent back and forth about Sendero for mesquites. Maybe he just wants to make sure the chemicals he puts down don't react to the ones the government has been spraying us with from airplanes.

---

You're right.

Joined 2012.
First post 2024.

Probably just a normal human.

---

You should really get it tested for dihydrogen monoxide. That's what the chemtrails are mostly made of. That stuff can kill you quick!

I see what you did there! HeHeHe!!

I think we scared the OP off.

No, not scared off. Just not going to waste my time on ignorant folk. Way too many good Aggies out there that are willing to help. Appreciate those that did.

txags92 said:

---

Kingdom Kid said:

---

Anybody know of any good kits to test for barium, aluminum, strontium, etc?

---

On the off-chance this is a serious question, there are no reliable "test kits" you can use at home like a pH kit that I am aware of. The two best ways to get an idea of what you have are to send a sample to a lab or to use an X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Detector that you can rent from various environmental supply companies. The lab is going to give you very accurate results and if you run TAL metals by Method 6020A or 6020B, you will get 23 metals analyzed down to ~100 part per billion levels. There are lots of places that can run that method on soil, such as Pace Analytical, ALS Labs, Eurofins, SGS, etc. and it will generally cost about $125 per sample. The XRF rents for a few hundred dollars per day and will give you higher detection limits and less accuracy, but you can test dozens of samples in a day. The XRF is best used with a few samples also sent to a lab to "ground truth" your results.

When looking at results, keep in mind that there is a wide range of potential background concentrations that may exist, depending on what soil type you are in and what historical practices happened in your area. Texas publishes a list of "Texas Specific" metals background concentrations (https://www.tceq.texas.gov/downloads/remediation/trrp/background.pdf), but keep in mind that some metals, like aluminum, iron, etc. will vary widely depending on what minerals make up the actual soil, and being "above background" for those minerals is not necessarily representative of contamination.

---

Thanks for this.

Are you interested in telling us why those are a concern?

CanyonAg77 said:

---

Are you interested in telling us why those are a concern?

---

Not really. There's plenty of legislation and documentation out there for people who want to know more. Again, really appreciate you Ags and all that you do to help Texas agriculture.

So, chemtrails.

Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream. You know when fluoridation first began? Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.

This chemtrail, flat-earth, aliens among us stuff is really getting old. Discernment has really gone off the rails, and I get it. There have been plenty of lies that have cultivated this huge level of distrust, but that doesn't mean the world is a massive conspiracy.

Kingdom Kid said:

---

CanyonAg77 said:

---

Are you interested in telling us why those are a concern?

---

Not really. There's plenty of legislation and documentation out there for people who want to know more. Again, really appreciate you Ags and all that you do to help Texas agriculture.

---

There's plenty of legislation and documentation on Bigfoot.

To be somewhat serious, yes, there are studies and papers out on the process you mention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection

But it's a pretty big leap from scientists thinking that such a thing will stop global warming, to actually doing it.

I know of no government or organization that is actually trying such a thing.

There are a bunch of conspiracy theories out there claiming that the normal contrails you see behind aircraft, caused by water vapor in the atmosphere, are instead chemical spraying. Anyone the least bit connected with aviation or agriculture (lots of both here) can assure you these theories are nonsense. So when you come on here, apparently worried about such a thing, expect to be mocked.

Especially when the only other posts from your username are request for information to help you spray chemicals on your own place. You are worried about alleged chemicals released at 30,000 feet and dispersed over thousands of square miles, but not worried about spraying 10,000,000x higher concentrations yourself?

But hey, it's America, if you have the money, you can test for nearly anything. Go ahead and get the test, there is no danger, except to your mental state. As I said four days ago, unless you suspect an old dump where someone disposed of chemicals, you aren't going to find any concern.

If I have misinterpreted, I apologize. But your reluctance to explain yourself makes me think I am correct.

CanyonAg77 said:

---

To be somewhat serious, yes, there are studies and papers out on the process you mention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection

But it's a pretty big leap from scientists thinking that such a thing will stop global warming, to actually doing it.

I know of no government or organization that is actually trying such a thing.

There are a bunch of conspiracy theories out there claiming that the normal contrails you see behind aircraft, caused by water vapor in the atmosphere, are instead chemical spraying. Anyone the least bit connected with aviation or agriculture (lots of both here) can assure you these theories are nonsense. So when you come on here, apparently worried about such a thing, expect to be mocked.

Especially when the only other posts from your username are request for information to help you spray chemicals on your own place. You are worried about alleged chemicals released at 30,000 feet and dispersed over thousands of square miles, but not worried about spraying 10,000,000x higher concentrations yourself?

But hey, it's America, if you have the money, you can test for nearly anything. Go ahead and get the test, there is no danger, except to your mental state. As I said four days ago, unless you suspect an old dump where someone disposed of chemicals, you aren't going to find any concern.

If I have misinterpreted, I apologize. But your reluctance to explain yourself makes me think I am correct.

---

Forgive me for being direct, but if I gave you the impression that I was interested in debating the matter, I apologize. I'm really not. My post was requesting information about soil tests.

If we are not going to discuss or debate, then my post is to tell you that your concerns are baseless and based on nonsense.

I love this website.