Determination of soil microaggregates with laser light scattering
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis
- Vol. 20 (1-2) , 47-59
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00103628909368067
Abstract
A laser light scattering technique was assessed for measuring the microaggregate size distribution (MSD) of three Italian soils after water dispersion and after disaggregation with ultrasound. MSD values were unaffected by the amount of sample in the dry weight range from 0.05 to 2.0 grams. Some disaggregation of water‐treated samples may occur in the measuring system, so an appropriate measurement time has to be selected.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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