What is the importance of purifying water and nutrient salts in studies involving mineral nutrition in hydroponics?
It refers to the process of growing plants in a solution without soil, utilising a nutrition solution. Impure water contains many impurities in the form of dissolved minerals. The impurities in this water will interfere with the experiments used to detect the elements if the solution culture is used to grow plants in hydroponics. Therefore, studies involving mineral nutrition using hydroponics use pure water and purified nutrient salts.