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capillary water

capillary water

[′kap·ə‚ler·ē ‚wȯd·ər]
(hydrology)
Soil water held by capillarity as a continuous film around soil particles and in interstices between particles above the phreactic line.
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capillary water

Water, above the water table, held there by capillary action.
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The pore water in an unsaturated soil can be divided into two categories: capillary water and adsorbed water.
present a research article on this disorder and find that the capillary water in fruit pericarp is one of the reasons in mangosteen aril.
Swampiness and salinisation of farmlands can be generated by the rise in capillary water in soils, which weakens foundations in residential areas [1, 2].
The average capillary water absorption rate of bricks-1.45 kg/([m.sup.2]-min).
When the partial pressure of air water vapor becomes higher than capillary water vapor, water moves to the interior of the pore.
Capillary water suction used to find out the absorption capacity of the bacterial concrete as compared to the conventional concrete.
OSA based pastes (hardened for 28 days) were tested for BET SSA as well as for total pore volume and pore size distribution to identify the further durability risks like cracking and capillary water suction.
Indirect evidence of a phreatophyte intercepting rising capillary water and thereby affecting higher soils comes from Kushiev (2005), who reported that plantings of the Eurasian G.
Ground waterproof and drainage technology can reduce and control the capillary water effectively, and it becomes the key to design highway subgrade structure.
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