The porosity of our soil was figured out through pouring water into our soil until there was a pull of water at the top of the beaker as seen in the picture above. Once the pool of water formed above the soil in the beaker, the amount of water left in the graduated cylinder was measured. The amount of water remaining was 25 mL.
The porosity as a percent was then measured by putting the pore space over the volume of the dry soil. The porosity ended up being 22.5 %.
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