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It can be shown quite conclusively that the often used technique (AAA) of leaching palaeosol samples with hot or boiling dilute HCl solution, followed by treatment with up to 2% NaOH solution and a further treatment with dilute HCl solution may not remove all of the so-called humic acids from palaeosol samples. In fact, in many cases it does not remove any of the humic acids, only carbohydrates, amino...