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    Soils can be divided into fractions based on grain size, such as separating a soil sample using a 4.75-mm sieve into fractions finer and coarser than 4.75-mm. The fraction finer than 4.75-mm is called the control fraction while the fraction coarser is the oversize. Different upper size limits are used for evaluating soils, as the largest particles can affect workability, with important limits including the 4.75-mm used to divide soils for construction and earthwork control.

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    Soils can be divided into fractions based on grain size, such as separating a soil sample using a 4.75-mm sieve into fractions finer and coarser than 4.75-mm. The fraction finer than 4.75-mm is called the control fraction while the fraction coarser is the oversize. Different upper size limits are used for evaluating soils, as the largest particles can affect workability, with important limits including the 4.75-mm used to divide soils for construction and earthwork control.

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    Properties of Soil

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    Soils can be divided into fractions based on grain size, such as separating a soil sample using a 4.75-mm sieve into fractions finer and coarser than 4.75-mm. The fraction finer than 4.75-mm is called the control fraction while the fraction coarser is the oversize. Different upper size limits are used for evaluating soils, as the largest particles can affect workability, with important limits including the 4.75-mm used to divide soils for construction and earthwork control.

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    CHAPTER 1—PROPERTIES OF SOILS

    Figure 1-4.—Gradation plot.

    A soil sample may be divided into parts&called A number of different upper-size limits are frequently used
    fractions&based on grain size. For example, in construction in appraising soils. The workability of a soil is often
    control of earthwork, soil is frequently divided into two affected appreciably by the largest soil particles present.
    fractions using the U.S.A. Standard 4.75-mm sieve (No. 4). Important upper-size limits for various applications are:
    The fraction finer than the 4.75-mm sieve (the minus
    4.75-mm fraction) is called the control fraction, and the
    fraction coarser than the 4.75-mm sieve (the plus 4.75-
    mm fraction) is called the oversize.

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