Spontaneous chaotic granular mixing

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6721, 1999, Pages 675-678

  Shinbrot, Troy ^a   Alexander, Albert ^a   Muzzio, Fernando J ^a  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; FLUID FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033602105     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/17760     Document Type: Article

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