Soil gathered from various terrains consists of several characteristics, offering fingerprints to their origin. As per the International Union of Soil Science (IUSS) standard, the soil category could ...

The fundamental components of the geologic structure are soil and sediments. Categorizing based on grain size and shape is an important stage in soil analysis in hydrology, sedimentology, and geology.

The Mastersizer uses laser diffraction to measure the size distribution of particles in the range 0.4µm to 2000µm. It can be used with any particulate medium.