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'See-through soil' could help farmers deal with future droughts


Adam Hadhazy, Office of Engineering Communications
Feb. 18, 2021 12:59 p.m.
Princeton researchers used tiny glass beads as a substitute for soil, so they could observe the behavior of hydrogels tiny plastic blobs that can absorb a thousand times their weight in water whose success in agriculture has been puzzlingly uneven. The researchers used a chemical that compensated for the distortion caused by the round beads, resulting in a perfectly clear view of the hydrogel.
Photo by the Datta Lab, Princeton University
In research that may eventually help crops survive drought, scientists at Princeton University have uncovered a key reason that mixing material called hydrogels with soil has sometimes proven disappointing for farmers. ....

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