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Entry: Water content measure
URI: https://data.geoscience.fr/ncl/Proc/108
The water content (also known as moisture) is the massic percentage of water contained in the soil divided by the dry weight. The practical procedure for determining the water content of a soil is to determine the mass loss on drying the test specimen to a constant mass in a drying oven controlled at a given temperature. The mass loss is assumed to be due to free water and is referenced to the remaining dry mass of solid particles.
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