Soils are considered the largest sink of microplastic (MP) in terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known about implications MP on soil physical properties. We hypothesize that low wettability induces water repellency, depending content and size particles. quantified mixtures sand. The sessile drop method (SDM) was applied to measure static contact angle (CA) glass beads at contents rangin...

POROUS STONE N.P. Avdelidis, E.T. Delegou, and A. Moropoulou 1 IRT & Materials Consultancy, Volos, Greece; 2 National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece Abstract: In this work, infrared thermography was employed as a monitoring technique during water capillary rise tests on a choice of porous stones in the laboratory, as well as in situ on a cleaned porous stone surface of a histori...

An apparatus tailored to accurate density measurements of supercooled water, i.e. liquid water in a metastable state below the freezing point temperature, was recently developed at Institute Thermomechanics Czech Academy Sciences. The apparatus, dual-capillary dilatometer, is described, together with measurement procedure and evaluation methodology. primary result method are relative densities ...

The forces governing the movement of water across the pulmonary capillaries were studied in 39 intact, spontaneously breathing dogs. A situation favoring the net movement of water out of the pulmonary capillaries was created by means of partial pulmonary venous obstruction (left atrial balloon catheter) followed by rapid saline hemodilution. A predetermined difference between pulmonary capillar...