Universality of a surface tension - Contact-angle relation for hydrophobic soils of different texture

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science

Volumn 169, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 745-753

  Bachmann, Jörg ^a   Arye, Gilboa ^b   Deurer, Markus ^c   Woche, Susanne K ^a   Horton, Robert ^d   Hartge, Karl Heinz ^e   Chen, Yona ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Contact angle; Hydrophobic soil; Soil physics; Surface tension; Wilhelmy plate method

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845762434     PISSN: 14368730     EISSN: 15222624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jpln.200622022     Document Type: Article

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