Effects of moisture content and number of loadings on force relaxation behaviour of chickpea kernels

International Agrophysics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 305-313

  Khazaei, J ^a   Mann, D D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chickpea; Relaxation force; Rheology; Stress

Indexed keywords

RHEOLOGY;

CICER ARIETINUM;

EID: 27744594186     PISSN: 02368722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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