Novel gas hold-up probe and application in flotation columns

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section C: Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy

Volumn 105, Issue MAY-AUG, 1996, Pages

  Tavera, F J ^a   Gomez, C O ^b   Finch, J A ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

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