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GLOSARY OF TERMS
Coagulation The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction.

Colloid Microscopicparticles suspended in some sort of liquid medium.

Composite Made of several types of material. Examples of composites include steel and concrete beams.


Discharge The volume of water flowingalong a pipe or channel each second.

Elastic analysis A method of analyzing a structure for design purposes.

Flexural strength How much you can bend something before it starts to break.Flocculation The coming together of suspended colloidal material or very fine particles like silt, into larger masses called floccules.

Floccule A small, loosely held mass or aggregate of fineparticles, resembling a tuft of wool and suspended in or precipitated from a solution.

Flotation jar test The process of separation of particles using fine air bubbles.

Geology The study of the rocksand similar substances that make up the Earth's surface. Especially in order to understand its structure and origin etc.

Geotechnics The practical application of geological science to civilengineering problems.

Hydraulics The study of how water and similar fluids behave. Examples of hydraulic structures include weirs, flumes, orifices, siphons and culverts.

Liquid limit The moisturecontent at which the soil stops acting as a liquid and starts acting as a plastic solid.

Open channels Open channels have a free or open water surface. Natural rivers and man-made canals arereferred to as open channels.

Particle size distribution test A standardised system of classifying soils by shaking a dried sample of the soil through a set of sieves and recording the weight retainedon each sieve.

Permeability The ability of a substance to allow gases or liquids to go through it.

Plastic analysis A method of analyzing a structure for design purposes.

Plastic limit...