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The Sticky Point Water of Soils. Part II1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

B. De C. Marchand
B. De C. Marchand
Affiliation:
Division of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, Cape Town
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Keen and Coutts(8) and Coutts(1) have suggested that the percentage of water in a soil at the sticky point is related to the colloidal content of the soil, as measured by “loss on ignition,” in the following manner:

S = mI + c,

i.e. by a rectilinear equation, and point out that the figure obtained for c approximates to the theoretical percentage of water held in the interstitial spaces of an ideal soil.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1931 , pp. 324 - 336
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1931

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