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  2. Physical properties of soil - Wikipedia

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    Soil texture is determined by the relative proportion of the three kinds of soil mineral particles, called soil separates: sand, silt, and clay. At the next larger scale, soil structures called peds or more commonly soil aggregates are created from the soil separates when iron oxides , carbonates , clay, silica and humus , coat particles and ...

  3. Iron - Wikipedia

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    Iron plays an essential role in marine systems and can act as a limiting nutrient for planktonic activity. [200] Because of this, too much of a decrease in iron may lead to a decrease in growth rates in phytoplanktonic organisms such as diatoms. [201] Iron can also be oxidized by marine microbes under conditions that are high in iron and low in ...

  4. Soil matrix - Wikipedia

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    The particle size distribution of a soil, its texture, determines many of the properties of that soil, in particular hydraulic conductivity and water potential, [1] but the mineralogy of those particles can strongly modify those properties. The mineralogy of the finest soil particles, clay, is especially important.

  5. Tempering (metallurgy) - Wikipedia

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    The exact temperature determines the amount of hardness removed, and depends on both the specific composition of the alloy and on the desired properties in the finished product. For instance, very hard tools are often tempered at low temperatures, while springs are tempered at much higher temperatures.

  6. Red heat - Wikipedia

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    The practice of using colours to determine the temperature of a piece of (usually) ferrous metal comes from blacksmithing. Long before thermometers were widely available, it was necessary to know what state the metal was in for heat treating it and the only way to do this was to heat it up to a colour which was known to be best for the work.

  7. Widmanstätten pattern - Wikipedia

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    The needles will usually form when the brass cools from the recrystallization temperature, and will become very coarse if the brass is annealed to 1,112 °F (600 °C) for long periods. [16] Telluric iron, which is an iron-nickel alloy very similar to meteorites, also displays very coarse Widmanstätten structures. Telluric iron is metallic iron ...

  8. List of thermal conductivities - Wikipedia

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    30 varnished silicon steel foils each of thickness 0.014 inches (0.356 mm): density 7.36 g cm −3; measured near a temperature of 358.2 K under pressure in the range 0 — 132 psi: 0 psi 0.512 w m −1 K −1

  9. Thermal contact conductance - Wikipedia

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    Most experimentally determined values of the thermal contact resistance fall between 0.000005 and 0.0005 m 2 K/W (the corresponding range of thermal contact conductance is 200,000 to 2000 W/m 2 K). To know whether the thermal contact resistance is significant or not, magnitudes of the thermal resistances of the layers are compared with typical ...