Data and models of water activity. I: Solutions and liquid foods

Food Properties Handbook, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 33-66

  Lewicki, Piotr P ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

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Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; POLYMERS;

COALESCENCE OF EMULSIONS; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; INTERPHASE BOUNDARIES; MULTI PHASE SYSTEMS; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; SPATIAL CONCENTRATION; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; TRANSLATIONAL DIFFUSION;

FOOD STORAGE;

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