Sentence examples for proportion of sand from inspiring English sources

The crows were then presented with two tubes, one half-filled with water and another with an equal proportion of sand.

It is necessary to adjust and control mixture proportion according to ambient temperature, transport distance, raw materials, especially water content of the aggregates, proportion of sand, and crushed stone after mixing.

The generality of these results is limited by the lack of replication due to only one established no-take area in the region, and the large proportion of sand habitats which limited the number of sampling sites for reef fishes within the sanctuaries.

PSD displayed consistent seasonality during the study, characterized by peaks in the proportion of sand (and aggregates) during the winter (i.e. 70 90%), and minimums during the summer (i.e. 12 38%); and peaks in the proportion of silt particles in the summer (i.e. 61 88%) and minimums in the winter (i.e. 10 23%).

The difference in the proportion of sand content among the different land uses was statistically significant (P < 0.001).

The proportion of sand and coal flash determines the granular composition and friction angle of the test soil.

The average grain size of the sediment may increase with time as the proportion of sand-prone granitic source rocks increases at the expense of more mud-prone volcanic sources.

The five stratigraphic units recorded between the basalts (from bottom to top, Units 5 to 1) form a normally bedded sequence of fine-grained sedimentary beds, with a minor proportion of sands and gravels toward the base.

Soil texture refers to the relative proportions of sand, silt, and clay particle sizes, irrespective of chemical or mineralogical composition (see the figure).

Here we propose the use of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) to estimate the proportions of sand, silt, and clay in 60 Brazilian soil samples of varying composition.

A translocation of Aporrectodea longa assessed the ability of this species to live in soils with a high sand content and laboratory work examined growth, maturation and survival of this species in soils with increasing proportions of sand (0 100%).