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XI.—The Theory of the Mechanical Analysis of Sediments by means of the Automatic Balance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

R. A. Fisher  and
Sven Odén
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In 1916, in a paper on the size of the particles in deep-sea deposits, Odén showed that the distribution by mass of a suspension into classes of particles of different size could be inferred from a study of the course of sedimentation of such a suspension from a state of uniform dispersion in water. The experimental data required constitute the “sedimentation curve ” of the suspension, showing the total weight deposited, at a fixed depth, at the end of any assigned length of time.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 44 , 1925 , pp. 98 - 115
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1925

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