Generation of small bubbles by hydrodynamic cavitation

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

Volumn 108, Issue JAN/APR, 1999, Pages

  Zhou, Z A ^a   Xu, Zhenghe ^a   Finch, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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