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81Soil functions — are general capabilities of soils that are important for various agricultural, environmental, nature protection, landscape architecture and urban applications. Six key soil functions are: [cite book | author = Blum, WEH | date = 1993 | title =… …
82Soil production function — refers to the rate of bedrock weathering into soil as a function of soil thickness. A general model suggested that the rate of physical weathering of bedrock (de/dt) can be represented as an exponential decline with soil thickness: de/dt = P 0… …
83Soil liquefaction — describes the behavior of loose saturated unconsolidated soils, i.e. loose sands, which go from a solid state to have the consistency of a heavy liquid, or reach a liquefied state as a consequence of increasing porewater pressures, and thus… …
84Soil steam sterilization — is a farming technique that sterilizes soil with steam in open fields or greenhouses. It is being used as an alternative to bromomethane, whose production and use was curtailed by the Montreal Protocol. Steam effectively kills pathogens by… …
85Soil moisture sensors — measure the water content in soil. A soil moisture probe is made up of multiple soil moisture sensors. One common type of soil moisture sensors in commercial use include the Frequency domain sensor such as the capacitance sensor. One of the major …
86Soil Art Gallery — [http://www.soilart.org/] is an artist run, not for profit gallery in Seattle, Washington, USA. Located in the newly renovated Tashiro Kaplan Building on 3rd and Yesler, Soil has a rotating membership of 20 24 artists. It has received substantial …
87Soil (disambiguation) — Soil may refer to the following:*Soil, a naturally occurring granular covering on the surface of Earth, capable of supporting life *Lunar soil, a similar granular covering on the Moon (though without Earth soil s organic components) *SOiL, an… …
88Soil pipe — Soil Soil, n. [OE. soile, F. sol, fr. L. solum bottom, soil; but the word has probably been influenced in form by soil a miry place. Cf. {Saloon}, {Soil} a miry place, {Sole} of the foot.] 1. The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that… …
89Soil flora — and Soil fauna are terms used to describe the organisms that live within soils. The flora is composed primarily of microorganisms such as bacteria, actinomycetes, algae and fungi (though some fungi are visible to the unaided eye). The fauna is… …
90Soil vapor extraction — (SVE) is an in situ process for soil remediation where contamination is removed from soil by carrying it out through a medium such as air or steam. The extracted soil vapors are separated into liquids and vapors, and each stream is treated as… …
