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Fig. 3. Various configurations of air and water partitioning into the two pore systems, inter and intra primary peds, related to the shrinkage phases of a standard shrinkage curve (SC). wcn represents the condensed water lodged in interstitial pore site Scn, and wsw represents the swelling water lodged in interstitial pore site Ssw that can be interped macropores (m) or matrix micropores (µ). Asterisk means that the site is active and the corresponding numbers of the active sites are nsw and ncn. The various pools of water, wre, wbs, wst, wip, are represented with their domain of variation. The inflection points Ibs and Ist, and by extension Ire and Iip, are placed on the graph for representing the quasi-linear shrinkage phases delimited by the transition points (A, B, C, D, E, and F). Points N', M', and L' are the intersection points of the tangents at those linear phases and Points N, M, and L, the corresponding points of the SC.
