Method dependency of relationships between specific surface area and soil physicochemical properties

Applied Clay Science

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 182-190

  Yukselen Aksoy, Yeliz ^a   Kaya, Abidin ^b  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AKAYA and Associates LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

BET surface area; Clay fraction; Consistency limits; Ethylene glycol monoethyl ether; Methylene blue; Specific surface area

Indexed keywords

BET SURFACE AREA; CLAY FRACTION; CONSISTENCY LIMITS; ETHYLENE GLYCOL MONOETHYL ETHER; METHYLENE BLUE; SPECIFIC SURFACE;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ETHERS; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; ORGANIC MINERALS; SOILS; SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA;

SOIL TESTING;

ADSORPTION; CALIBRATION; CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; ETHER; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; MINERALOGY; ORGANIC MATTER; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE AREA;

EID: 77957019074     PISSN: 01691317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clay.2010.07.020     Document Type: Article

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