Reduction of energy consumption in fused-salt electrowinning of lithium by application of centrifugal fields

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

Volumn 106, Issue SEPT/DEC, 1997, Pages

  Cox, A ^a   Fray, D J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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