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Soil science
That science dealing with soils as a natural resource on the surface of the earth including soil formation, classification and mapping; physical, chemical, biological, and fertility properties of soils per se; and these properties in relation to the use and management of soils.
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Isotropic
Earth science; Soil science
Having one or more properties which are the same in all directions in a crystal or in a bulk soil.
Capacitance
Earth science; Soil science
An elecromagnetic method for measuring the soil water content.
Rhizobia populated
Earth science; Soil science
Any material that contains rhizobia able to nodulate leguminous plants of interest. Contrast with rhizobia free.
Consolidation test
Earth science; Soil science
A test in which the soil specimen is laterally confined in a ring and is compressed between porous plates.
Non-expanding
Earth science; Soil science
Layer silicate type which has no intracrystalline swelling capacity in the presence of water.
Autotrophic nitrification
Earth science; Soil science
Oxidation of ammonium to nitrate through the combined action of two chemoautotrophic bacteria, one forming nitrite from ammonium and the other oxidising nitrite to nitrate.
