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by wickedwillie on April 16th, 2005

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What is "hygroscopic water"?

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  • by Erin Albrecht on April 17th, 2005

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    "Hygroscopic water" is a film of water no more than 0.0002 millimeters thick, which is chemically bound to soil particles by adhesive forces in excess of 31 bars (sea level pressure is 1 bar). This makes the water unavailable to plants, as it can only be liberated from the soil by heating.

    The Soil Science Society of America (http://www.soils.org/sssagloss/cgi-bin/gloss_search.cgi?QUERY=hygroscopic+water&SOURCE=2), which no longer uses this term in its publications, defines it as "Water adsorbed by a dry soil from an atmosphere of high relative humidity, water remaining in the soil after 'air-drying,' or water held by the soil when it is in equilibrium with an atmosphere of a specified relative humidity at a specified temperature, usually 98% relative humidity at 25 degrees C."

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  • by cuntface on December 8th, 2009

    cuntface

    Also, what if my vagina is the size of a mango? Anyone help?!

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  • by cuntface on December 8th, 2009

    cuntface

    Can you simplify that?
    I'm kinda dumb.

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