Sand means and includes ordinary sand, other than sand used for prescribed purposes, along with the stones, boulders, pebbles and gravels accumulated in the riverbed by natural phenomenon. Sand shall be referred to as one of the minor minerals specified at serial no. XXVII in the Gazette of India dated 10th February 2015.
Sand means a soil particle; this term also refers to a type of soil texture. As a soil particle, sand consists of individual rock or mineral particles in soils having diameters ranging from 0.05 to 2.0 millimeters. As a soil texture, sand is soil that is comprised of 85 percent or more sand particles, with the percentage of silt plus 1.5 times the percentage of clay particles comprising less than 15 percent.
Sand means soil material that contains 85 percent or more of sand; the percentage of silt plus 1.5 times the percentage of clay shall not exceed 15.
Examples of Sand in a sentence
Plastering to internal walls will be 15 MM thick in 1:6 Cement, Sand and Mortar and Ceiling will be 10 MM thick in 1:4 Cement, Sand and Mortar.
More Definitions of Sand
Sand means individual mineral particles in a soil that range in diameter from the upper limit of silt (0.05 millimeters to 2.0 millimeters).
Sand means mineral material with a size range between two (2) and one-sixteenth (1/16) millimeter diameter.
Sand means a soil material composed by weight of at least 90 percent of soil particles ranging in size between 0.05 and 2.0 mm or 0.002 inches and 0.08 inches.
Sand means streambed or streambank material with a diameter of 0.1 mm to 0.4 mm;
Sand means soil material that contains 85 percent or more of sand; the percentage of silt plus 1.5 times the percentage of clay less than 15;
Sand means soil material that contains 85 percent or more of sand; the percentage of silt plus
Sand means any kind of sand sold, conveyed or otherwise dealt with in the course of trade and includes foundry moulding sand used, or intended to be used, or capable or being used for road or building construction or for agricultural, horticultural or gardening purposes;