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Vol. 40 No. 2 (2009)
https://doi.org/10.4081/jae.2009.2.35

COMPARING PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS BY SEDIMENTATION AND LASER DIFFRACTION METHOD

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Received: 25 June 2012
Accepted: 25 June 2012
Published: 30 June 2009
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Particle-size distribution, Sieve-Hydrometer method, Laser Diffraction method

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Vito Ferro
vferro@unipa.it
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Stefano Mirabile
, .
In this paper a brief review of the laser diffraction method is firstly carried out. Then, for 30 soil samples having a different texture classification sampled in Sicilian basin, a comparison between the two techniques is developed. The analysis demonstrated that the sand content measured by Sieve-Hydrometer method can be assumed equal to the one determinated by laser diffraction technique while an overestimation of the clay fraction measured by Sieve-Hydrometer method respect to laser diffraction technique was obtained. Finally a set of equations useful to refer LD measurements to SH method was proposed.

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“COMPARING PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS BY SEDIMENTATION AND LASER DIFFRACTION METHOD” (2009) Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 40(2), pp. 35–43. doi:10.4081/jae.2009.2.35.

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