Open AccessSoil solkution and methods of its investigation
Author(s) -
Попов Владимир Викторович
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
počvy i okružaûŝaâ sreda
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2618-6802
DOI - 10.31251/pos.v3i1.106
Subject(s) - soil water , capillary action , liquid phase , pressing , water content , soil science , environmental science , moisture , phase (matter) , materials science , geotechnical engineering , chemistry , geology , composite material , physics , organic chemistry , thermodynamics
The article describes main categories of soil moisture (hydroscopic, capillary, and gravitational, providing their brief characteristics, and discusses the main advantages and disadvantages of the methods that are currently used to study the liquid phase of soils, such as using water extracts and saturated pastes, displacing soil solution with a substitute liquid, pressing, centrifugation, lysimetry and studying soil liquid phase in situ.