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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 17.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2019 Aug 29;53(18):10654–10664. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b02343

Table 1.

Properties of porous media. From Santamaria et al. (62).

Porous Medium Sand (%) Silt (%) Clay (%) TOC(%) Median grain diameter d50 (mm) Uniformity coefficient Uc (d60/d10) Pore Diameter(μm)
Particle density (g cm−3) SiO2% Fe§ μg/g Al§μg/g Mn§ μg/g
>100 100–10 <10
Eustis 95 <1 4.4 0.38 0.27 2.3 8 81 11 2.64 97.7 310 690 19
Vinton 96 1.5 3.0 0. 1 0.26 2.0 21 61 18 2.69 54.4 1,700 1,400 130

TOC = total organic carbon

Percent of pores with designated size, determined from capillary pressure-saturation curves measured under primary drainage.

§

Elements dissolved from soils in 5 M HNO3 extractions