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International Agrophysics
publisher:Institute of Agrophysics
Polish Academy of Sciences
Lublin, Poland
ISSN: 0236-8722


vol. 16, nr. 1 (2002)

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Measurement of the water absorption rate in wheat grain
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Kornarzyński K., Pietruszewski S., Łacek R.
Department of Physics, University of Agriculture, Akademicka 13, 20-950 Lublin, Poland

vol. 16 (2002), nr. 1, pp. 33-36
abstract The paper presents measurements of the rate of water absorption in wheat grain by the capillary – weight method. Measurements were taken for three grain fractions which took water with the characteristic parts, i.e.: groove, germ etc.
keywords water absorption, wheat grain, capillary-weight method