Alkali fusion of zircon sand

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

Volumn 109, Issue JAN./APR., 2000, Pages

  El Barawy, K A ^a,b   El Tawil, S Z ^a   Francis, A A ^a  

^a CENTRAL METALLURGICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CMRDI   (Egypt)

^b Central Metallurgical Research Development Institute   (Egypt)

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