Relation of the Moisture Equivalent of Soils to the Moisture Properties Under Field Conditions of Irrigation

Harding, S. T.

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“…The methylene blue experiments were made on 1 per cent, suspensions of clay or with a weighed quantity of dry substance, equal weights of dye and material being used. % methylene blue absorbed 34-0 13-9 34-0 23-5 32-9 8-7 1 1-9 1 4 1 1 1-4 1 1 Experiments with these substances of low adsorbing power were made with five times as much material as dye.…”

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The moisture equivalent of heavy soils

Joseph¹,

Martı́n²

1923

J. Agric. Sci.

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(1) The moisture equivalent of a normal soil diminishes as the weight of soil taken for the determination increases.(2) Some soils are particularly impermeable to water in thick layers: in these cases the moisture equivalent increases with the weight of soil taken and may become very large owing to waterlogging. A soil may, however, have a very high moisture equivalent without showing waterlogging.(3) Dilute solutions of flocculating salts such as calcium sulphate, or ammonium nitrate or sulphate, reduce the moisture equivalent, and sodium carbonate increases it.(4) The effect of sodium carbonate is complicated: with gradually increasing concentration, the moisture equivalent first diminishes and then increases to a maximum, after which there is further diminution.(5) The soil samples which easily showed waterlogging in the Briggs-McLane apparatus had a higher concentration of hydroxyl-ions (pH) than those which did not.(6) Whilst the colloidal content of a clay seems related to its moisture equivalent, no such connection appears to exist for substances such as kaolin or aluminium hydroxide.

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