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A method is described for determining the porosity of water-saturated dielectric materials on the basis of the anomalous microwave dispersion of water. A study of the porous structure of kaolin, clay, a ceramic, and silica gel is reported.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 856–860, May, 1974.
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Petrov, L.K., Rimkevich, I.M. & Benzar', V.K. Microwave method for studying the porous structure of water-saturated dielectric materials. Journal of Engineering Physics 26, 595–598 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00826001
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