Wetting angle and water sorptivity in mineral soils

Soil and Water Research

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages S52-S57

  Czachor, Henryk ^a   Flis Bujak, Maria ^b   Kafarski, Marcin ^a   Król, Andrzej ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Sub critical repellency; Washburn theory; Wavy capillary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947781689     PISSN: 18015395     EISSN: 18059384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/1201-swr     Document Type: Article

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