loam

soil composed of sand, silt, and clay in relatively even proportions
Thing soil_type Q1131303
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loam

Summary

loam is a soil type[1]. loam ranks in the top 4% of soil_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,754 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • loam's instance of is recorded as soil type[3].
  • loam is a type of material[4].
  • loam is a type of historic building material[5].
  • loam is a type of binder[6].
  • loam's Commons category is recorded as Loam[7].
  • loam comprises sand[8].
  • loam comprises silt[9].
  • loam comprises clay[10].
  • loam's has cause is recorded as Q1640514[11].
  • loam's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • loam's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[13].
  • loam's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • loam's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[15].
  • loam's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[16].
  • loam's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002258[17].

Body

Definition and Type

loam's instance of is recorded as soil type[3]. Recorded subclass of include material[4], historic building material[5], and binder[6].

Use and Application

Components include sand[8]; silt[9]; and clay[10], a type of material[18].

Influence

Things named for loam include Berg am Laim[19], a borough of Munich[20], in Germany[21]; Laim[22], a borough of Munich[23], in Germany[24]; and Groß Glienicke[25], an Ortsteil[26], in Germany[27].

Why It Matters

loam ranks in the top 4% of soil_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,754 views/month).[2] loam has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] loam is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Entities named for loam include Berg am Laim[19], a borough of Munich[20], in Germany[21]; Laim[22], a borough of Munich[23], in Germany[24]; and Groß Glienicke[25], an Ortsteil[26], in Germany[27].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Environment Ontology. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [19] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [22] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [25] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [18] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id h0005829-hlina
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0005829-hlina, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259490|batch #259490]]"
  2. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb
    Has part(s) sand, silt, clay
    Instance of soil type
    Has parts
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007533593305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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