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Application of the Robinson Method to the Determination of Clay 1
Author(s) -
Engle E. B.,
Yoder D. R.
Publication year - 1926
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1926.00021962001800110008x
Subject(s) - agronomy , environmental science , biology
DETERMINATION OF CLAY E. B. ENGLE AND D. R. YoDER INTRODUCTION Robinson (4)' and Jennings, Thomas, and Gardner (3) contemporaneously have proposed a new method for the determination of soil separates. The Robinson method seemed so simple, reliable, rapid, and well adapted to laboratory studies that it was immediately investigated as a method for the determination of clay (particles (.005 mm. diameter) in the Soils Laboratory at the University of Nebraska. The centrifugal method for the determination of clay previously in use has been practically abandoned. The purpose of this paper is to give the technic of the Robinson method as developed and standardized in this laboratory, and to show the comparison between it and the centrifugal method.