Discontinuous pore fluid distribution under microgravity - KC-135 flight investigations

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 593-598

  Reddi, Lakshmi N ^a   Xiao, Ming ^a   Steinberg, Susan L ^b  

^a Kansas State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; GROWTH KINETICS; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; PLANTS (BOTANY); PORE SIZE; WETTING;

BLOB-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; MICROGRAVITY; PLANT GROWTH; PORE FLUID DISTRIBUTION;

SOILS;

ALKANE; GLASS; HEXADECANE; MICROSPHERE; N-HEXADECANE; WATER;

SOIL WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; FLOW KINETICS; GRAVITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYDROPONICS; MANNED; NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PARABOLIC FLIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PLANT; POROSITY; SHORT DURATION; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; PARABOLIC FLIGHT; SHORT DURATION;

ALKANES; CULTURE MEDIA; GLASS; HYDROPONICS; HYPERGRAVITY; MICROSPHERES; PARTICLE SIZE; PLANTS; POROSITY; RHEOLOGY; SPACE FLIGHT; WATER; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

FARM CROPS; GRAVITATION; GROWTH; PLANTS; SOIL;

EID: 18644368903     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2004.0157     Document Type: Article

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