“…19,6,5,43 This finding is also relevant to the question of short-term aging of soils for geotechnical use, and a proper conduction of oedometer compression tests to better represent soil compressibility in situ. 24 There is a host of new questions raised by the presented work. The first among them is, whether the observed intergranular silica polymer bonding spontaneously building at the intergranular damage site, is sufficient to account for the time dependent strengthening of sediments observed by Hueckel et al 24,26 The current answer is yes, the measured forces are 2-3 times higher than capillary force, classically believed to be responsible for the apparent cohesion increase upon desaturation.…”