Talk:Humic acid

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This page needs to be linked to Water Quality and treatment for the purpose of making drinking (potable) water.

The presence of humic acid in water intended for potable or industrial use can have a significant impact on the treatability of that water and the success of chemical disinfection processes. Accurate methods of estabishing humic acid concentrations is therefore essential in maintaining water supplies

This area needs to exapanded upon as it is is deals with public health related issues. any assistance would be appreciated

[edit] Article focus

Articles should focus on the topic in the title. This article spends most of it's time focusing on the properties of humic substances. Perhaps that material should be moved to humic substances which redirects here. Currently this article never tells us much about humic acid, structure, chemical properties, etc. I know nothing about it, so I wouldn't really be much help. Thanks - Taxman ^Talk 14:20, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Health Issues

I have been redirected here after searching for fulvic acid, which I was interested in because of its links to health issues. However, this article does not speak about these issues at all. Perhaps there is an argument for expanding the page on fulvic acid in regards to this? Sadly, I am a newcomer to this issue, and as such would not be the one for creating the page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.171.88.236 (talk) 21:51, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] crenic acid

This is another acid found (along with apocrenic acid) in humus. Does anyone know its composition / structure? Jeff Knaggs (talk) 17:20, 7 March 2008 (UTC)