Liquid, soil, groundwater solutions

The liquid in which the SAH swelling takes place in real soil (the soil solution) always contains a more-or-less wide set of dissolved salts. Their nature and amount depend on the soil composition, the degree of its salinity, the nature of water entering the soil (rainfall, irrigation, river, or groundwater), the fertilizers used. As a rule, alkali cations, Ca2 +, Mg2+, Fe3+, Al3+, and anions CP, CO, SO4, etc. are the main components of the soil solution there exist various models of soil solution and nutrient mixtures employed in research, including SAH testing. 

Ceramic materials in contact with aqueous liquids are also susceptible to attack. This is of particular importance in the realm of civil engineering, where materials of con-strnction that contain minerals routinely come in contact with groundwater and soil. Minerals dissolve into aqueous solutions through the diffusion of teachable species into a stationary thin film of water, about 110 ttm thick... 

The book consists of four chapters. The first one deals with the individual components of the studied systems the solid, the solution, and the interface. Solid means rocks and soils, namely, the main mineral and other solid components. In order that the solid/liquid interactions become possible, these must be located in the Earth s crust where groundwater is present. The liquid phase refers to soil solutions and groundwater, and also any solutions that are part of laboratory experiments studying interfacial properties with the objective of understanding the principles behind the reactions. In Chapter 1, the characteristics and thermodynamics of the... 

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