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IS sieve of sizes 100, 63, IS sieve of size 2mm,
20, 10, and 4.75 mm. 1.0mm, 600 425, 300,
Balances 212, 150, 75 micron.
Tray Tray
Mechanical shaker
PROCEDURE:-
COARSE SIEVING :- FINE SIEVING :-
take the soil sample and Wash the sample after passing through
4.75 mm sieve.
sieve it first through the 2 gms of sodium hexametaphosphate
first set of IS sieve i.e. 100, is added per litre of water used.
washing should be done till the water
63, 20, 10 and 4.75 mm passing through 75 micron sieve is
Sieving is done in clean.
mechanical shaker for at The fraction retained on 75 micron
sieve is dried and dried portion is then
least 5 to 10 minutes. re- sieved through the second set of
Now wt. The material sieve.
retained on each sieve to i.e from 2mm, 1.0mm, 600 425, 300, 212,
1.0 gm. 150, 75 micron.
And then percentage finer The portion passing through 75 micron
sieve is dried and its mass is determined
is calculated. to get % finer than 75 micron size.
Sieve size wt. %wt. Cumulative %finer (N)
Retained(g retained wt.
m) Retained
80mm 5 5 5 95
40mm 25 25 30 70
20mm 35 35 65 35
10mm 15 15 80 20
4.75mm 20 20 100 0
total= 100gm
SEDIMENTATION Mtd.
1. PIPETTE Mtd.
APPARATUS :-
- a pipette
a jar or boiling tube
number of sampling bottles of 500 ml capacity.
PROCEDURE:-
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PROCEDURE:-
Hydrometer
Jars (two)
Mechanical stirrer
Balance
Stop watch
Sieve 75 micron
Centimetre scale
Distilled water
Soil weighing dish
PROCEDURE :-
Soil suspension preparation is same as in pipette mtd.
But the volume of sample is 100 ml.
So, double the quantity of dry soil and dispersing agent.
Stop watch is started and the hydrometer is slowly inserted
in the jar and reading are taken at , 1, 2 minutes time
interval
Then hydrometer is taken out.
CALIBRATION OF
HYDROMETER
CALCULATION:-
He
Diameter
% finer (N)
DETERMINATION OF He
D = 10-5 F He /t
where, F = 10 3000
( G 1)
m
% finer ( N ) = N * M/M
Where N = 100G R/ Md ( G 1)
Where Md = R * ( G / G-1 )/1000
M = cumulative mass passing
through 2 mm sieve
M = total dry mass of the soil
sample