Synthesis of silicon carbide from rice husk in a dc arc plasma reactor

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1197-1200

  Nayak, Bijan Bihari ^a   Mohanty, Bishnu Charanarabinda ^a   Singh, Saroj Kumar ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF MINERALS AND MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ARC PLASMA REACTORS; RICE HUSK;

SILICON CARBIDE;

EID: 0030146806     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1996.tb08572.x     Document Type: Article

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