Sentence examples for silt particle from inspiring English sources

JH, which contains some amount of silt particle, was found to show pozzolanic activity by TG/DTA analysis.

This requires that the silt particle size (d 50 ) is much smaller than the pore size between the sand particles (sand particle size, D 50 ).

Open image in new window Fig. 16 Sand particle variation of both the dry and rainy seasons at eight sampling stations Open image in new window Fig. 17 Clay particle variation of both the dry and rainy seasons at eight sampling stations Open image in new window Fig. 18 Silt particle variation of both the dry and rainy seasons at eight sampling stations.

The percolation of infrequent precipitation tends to cause lateral and downslope movement of silt particles beneath the surface of the ground.

Soil particles falling into the three principal size categories may have various mineralogical or chemical compositions, although sand particles often are composed of quartz and feldspars, silt particles often are micaceous, and clay particles often contain layer-type aluminosilicates (the so-called clay minerals).

For adding more silt (30% silt content) (see Fig. 28c) the void spaces fully occupied with the silt particles, the silt particles start to support the sand particles.

The silt particles are largely formed by glacial grinding, by continental and mountain glaciers.

Clay and silt particles were the major determinant of SOC in the study area.

The marsh viscosity of the fluid, just after mixing, increased due to presence of silt particles (in suspension) but after 2 h the viscosity of the top fluid was decreased, as the silt particles got settled.

From these two images, it is clearly seen that the fine sand and silt particles are angular and rough.

The glacially provided silt particles are quite close in size to the optimum for aeolian pick-up (∼80 μm).