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Published online 23 May 2006
Published in Soil Sci Soc Am J 70:1094-1100 (2006)
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2005.0303N
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Comparison of American Society of Testing Materials and Soil Science Society of America Hydrometer Methods for Particle-Size Analysis

J. M. Keller* and G. W. Gee

Pacific Northwest National Lab., Richland, WA 99352


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  		Fig. 1. American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM) hydrometer method composite temperature correction function developed from blank 152H hydrometer measurements.

 

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  		Fig. 2. Comparison of D50, D30, and D10 statistic from American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM) and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) hydrometer analysis under ambient conditions and 30°C water bath. D50, D30, and D10 are the particle diameters when the percentage less than of the particle-size distribution curve is 50, 30, and 10%, respectively.

 

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  		Fig. 3. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) textural triangle plots of soil samples used for the study as determined from the American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM) and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) hydrometer analysis methods.

 




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