Critical evaluation of the use of laser diffraction for particle-size distribution analysis

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 736-743

  Eshel, G ^a   Levy, G J ^b   Mingelgrin, U ^b   Singer, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; DIFFRACTION; LASERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LASER DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL MODELS; SILT-SIZE FRACTION;

SOILS;

LASER METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 2442690730     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2004.7360     Document Type: Article

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