Soil Porosity Test!

The purpose of this test was to find out how much water (or anything) our soil could hold at complete saturation, essentially finding the amount of our soil which is empty space. To find that , we put a certain amount of soil in a beaker, poured as much water as we could without oversaturating the soil, then compared the two volumes in percents to find the soil porosity. The beaker had 200 mL of soil and was able to hold 80 mL of water. Porosity= 80 mL H20 /200 mL of soil = .4 or 40% pore space.