Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 517
479 CLEARING WATER BY SETTLEMENT. curve .4 Zx. Or the amount of sediment AX Zx would have settled out of the water above Zlf while at the same time an equal amount would have been deposited on the bottom. At the end of two hours the upper ends of the elements would have moved down to the curve A… … Fig. 1. value of d is at just twice the depth that it was in A Z^ ; and so on for further hours. It may be noted here that if this were the phenomena of settlement, in contrasting a settling basin of one depth with one twice as deep, the basin
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