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of soils, for which he is most remembered. Atterberg was apparently the first to suggest the limit <0.002 mm as a classification for clay particles. He found that plasticity to be a particular characteristic of clay and as a result of his investigations arrived at the consistency limits which
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in 1872 and then stayed there as a lecturer in analytical chemistry until 1877, during which time he traveled across Sweden and abroad to study the latest developments in organic chemistry. He then went on to become the principal of the
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Conference in 1913. Two year later a U.S. Bureau of
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bear his name today. He also conducted studies aiming to identify the specific minerals that give a clayey soil its plastic nature.
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