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Volumes of Wet and Dry Sand

How to differentiate the volumes of wet and dry sand / soil?
Asked by: sharphrv | Member Since Nov-2008 | Asked on: Dec 9th, 2008

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Volume of wet sand = ( Weight of wet  soil / submerged density of soil  )

Volume of dry sand  = ( Weight of dry soil/ dry density  of soil  )

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suresh T

Answered On : Feb 4th, 2009

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Take a cylinder with marking of measurement fill it with sand up to fixed height then add water full to complete saturate the sand than measure the volume of sand now take difference in volume of sand before water and after water added i.e. bulkage of sand find the % of bulkage in this way we can find out volume

  
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Bharath M

Answered On : Dec 9th, 2011

25% of Volume will be differ from the both.

  
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