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Article: Tool measures air flow through soil.(Update)(Brief Article)
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- Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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An Auburn University (AU) soil physicist has invented a new measurement device that may have an important role in agriculture, geology, and other areas where knowing the permeability of soil and other porous materials is important.
Jacob Dane, a professor in AU's Department of Agronomy and Soils, along with former graduate student Marc Jalbert, invented the Air Permeameter to measure the amount of air flow through soil.
Dane explains that the air permeability of soil directly relates to the amount of water flow for agricultural applications. By knowing the degree of compactness of soil, it is possible to use this information to calculate other soil ...