COMMENTS ON SOME OF THE PHYSICAL CHEMICAL QUESTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ANALYSIS OF WATER IN EARTH MATERIALS

摘要

A discussion of various physical chem¬ical questions which are associated with the quantitative analysis of water in earth materials is presented. A pseudothermodynamic approach to the binding of water in various types of earth materials is also presented. Emphasis is placed on the fact that as pore, crack, or hole sizes approach molecular dimensions, the inter¬action energy of water with the host mate¬rial can become very large. A scale of interaction energies is suggested which would be useful for specifying operationally relevant analyses in earth materials.