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What does 50% soil moisture content actually mean?
Apologies for what may be a dumb and trivial question and I'm not sure
if this is the best group to query, but I'm wondering what a particular soil moisture content actually means and how to achieve it under controlled conditions. For example, if I have 100ml of a given type of soil that's been dried and compacted so that there's relatively few air pockets, after adding 100ml of water and letting it permeate, would this mean that the soil now has a 50% water content assuming no evaporation as taken place? Or would that be 100% moisture as the total volume of soil has had an equivalent volume of water added, or neither? Further more, given my 100ml of soil that is dried but perhaps isn't compacted and has some other non-soil components, would adding my 100ml of water change the moisture content then? Input from anyone clued up on this most welcome! Nick |
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