Effect of particle optical properties on size distribution of soils obtained by laser diffraction

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 163-173

  Özer, Mustafa ^a   Orhan, Mehmet ^a   Işik, Nihat S ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Absorption coefficient; Clay size particles; Laser diffraction method; Particle size distribution; Refractive index

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; CLAY-SIZE FRACTION; CLAY-SIZE PARTICLES; FRAUNHOFER; GEOSCIENCES; GEOTECHNICAL PRACTICES; LASER DIFFRACTION METHOD; LASER DIFFRACTIONS; MIE THEORY; NATURAL SOILS; NATURALLY OCCURRING; OPTICAL THEORY; PARTICLE OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SEDIMENTARY SOILS; SOIL SAMPLE;

ABSORPTION; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTOMETERS; LIGHT REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIZE DETERMINATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; LASER; MIE THEORY; PARTICLE SIZE; PEDOLOGY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESEARCH WORK; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL TYPE;

EID: 79957492652     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.16.2.163     Document Type: Article

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