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A moisture-release curve may be determined removing, stepwise, increments of water measuring the steady-state soil-moisture that develops. A soil-moisture-adsorption may be determined in the same, except that increments of water are allowed enter the sample. The failure of these curves to coincide is commonly known soil-moisture hysteresis (see, for example,. 3 to 6).
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