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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2010 Oct 1;44(19):7596–7600. doi: 10.1021/es101312n

Table 1.

Soil Properties

Medium Median Diameter (mm) Smooth-sphere Surface Area1(cm−1) Specific surface area2 (m2/g) Porosity Bulk density (g/cm3)
Vinton 0.234 149 3.54 0.42 1.51
Eustis 0.27 138 0.64 0.36 1.69
1

Volume-normalized specific solid surface area (SSA) calculated using the smooth-sphere assumption: SSSA = 6(1-n)/d, where n is porosity and d is median grain diameter.

2

Measured with the N2/BET method by Quantachrome Instruments (Boynton Beach, FL) and Micromeritics Corporation (Norcross, GA).