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How is soil moisture determined?

How is soil moisture determined?

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Soil moisture represent the amount of water stored or retained by soil in the voids of soil.

Soil moisture is the basic properties of soil which affects various properties of soil and it is representes as a ratio or percentage also.

It is the ratio of amount of water by the total weight or volume of soil presented as ratio.

Symbol. W%

The simple method is take a sample of soil and mesaured the weight as (W-1)

Put the soil for oven drying for 24- hours and mesaured the weight of soil as (W-2)

Water content is : calculate amount of water by subtracting the weights and divided by the original volume of soil (W-1).

(W-1)--(W-2)/(W-1)

It is simply called oven drying method to calculate the amount of water content.It is direct method to calculate the moisture content of soil.

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