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Generally speaking Soil is a three dimensional system, made of a solid, a liquid and a gaseous phase, each in an amount depending on the abundance of its constituents and their kinetic roles in the complex series of reactions, leading to soil formation. Figure 2 illustrates the composition by volume of an average soil.
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Mirsal, I.A. (2004). Soil Constituents. In: Soil Pollution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05400-0_2
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