Change in paste viscosity depending on water content and initial moisture content of soil samples

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The effect of soil drying and the humidity to which soil samples were moistened, as well as the mechanical effect of pastes on their viscosity, was studied. The purpose of the study was to explain the observed phenomena from the standpoint of physical and gel models of soils. The studies were carried out on samples taken from humus-accumulative horizons of chernozem, sod-podzolic and gray forest soils. The viscosity of the soil pastes was determined by using a vibrating viscometer, and a laser diffractometer was used to study the size of the soil particles in the pastes. It has been established that with an increase in the magnitude of mechanical effects on soil pastes, upon reaching its limit for each soil, an increase in the viscosity of soil pastes occurs, called rheopexy in colloidal chemistry. It has been shown that rheopexy is characterized by an increase in the particle size in soil pastes. It was found that the moisture content of the soil sample before the preparation of the paste affects the viscosity of pastes in a complex way: for the studied soil samples, two maximum viscosities of pastes are observed. One of them is close to the soil hydrological moisture constant of capillary rupture, and the second is close to the lowest moisture capacity.

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Gennadiy N. Fedotov

M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Author for correspondence.
Email: gennadiy.fedotov@gmail.com

Dr. Sci. (Biology), Senior Researcher of the Faculty of Soil Science

Russian Federation, GSP-1, 1, P. 12, Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow

Darya A. Tarasenko

M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: ushkova_dasha@mail.ru

Engineer of the Faculty of Soil Science

Russian Federation, GSP-1, 1, P. 12, Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow

Ivan V. Gorepekin

M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University; Eurasian Center for Food Security of Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: decembrist96@yandex.ru

Cand. Sci. (Biology), Researcher of the Faculty of Soil Science; Researcher

Russian Federation, GSP-1, 1, P. 12, Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow; GSP-1, 1, P. 12, Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow

Yuriy P. Batyrev

BMSTU (Mytishchi Branch)

Email: batyrev@bmstu.ru

Cand. Sci. (Tech.), Associate Professor

Russian Federation, 1, 1st Institutskaya St., 141005, Mytishchi, Moscow Region

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