A fractal description of the progeny of single impact single particle breakage

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 715-726

  Brown, G J ^a   Miles, N J ^a   Jones, T F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comminution; Particle morphology; Particle size; Sizing

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; IMPACT RESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

PARTICLE BREAKAGE; PARTICLE MORPHOLOGY;

COMMINUTION;

EID: 0030193415     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0892-6875(96)00063-5     Document Type: Article

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