Sentence examples for soil substitute from inspiring English sources

Over this installation is spread a blend of rubber and sand, a soil substitute that stands the fiber up, Milano said, and provides cushioning for the players and traction for their cleats.

When it rains the membrane can soak up water and prevent flooding, then use this to germinate plant life, acting as a soil substitute.

A dish of water gel (also sold as soil substitute, e.g. "polyacrylamide") or unflavored jello kept in a corner also makes a great watering hole.

Then, for other mixtures, excavated soil substituted for ponded ash in amounts of 10, 20, 30, and 40% by weight.

WDEQ/LQD Guideline No. 1A (Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality 2017) includes criteria for suitability for soils or soil substitutes.

Three-day-old seedlings were transplanted into pots filled with soil substituted with 3 g ammonium sulphate.

The last glacial period had the same effect: iodine-rich soil was substituted by iodine-poor soil from crystalline rocks.

These systems depend upon shear transfer to mobilize the tensile capacity of closely spaced reinforcing elements and they eliminate the need for any external structural systems to retain the soil, by substituting a composite system of reinforcing elements and soil as the primary structural unit.

Add fertilizer to your soil to help substitute in nitrogen, phosphorous, or potassium that you may be lacking.

A third model was created to represent the disturbed boundary conditions (wetland design), but substituted soil data observed at the nondisturbed study area.

Authors like Cokca [12], Bandara et al. [6] and Shahiri and Ghasemi [26] had reported on some soil modifiers as substitutes for lime.