A Colorful Mixing Experiment in a Stirred Tank Using Non-Newtonian Blue Maize Flour Suspensions

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1729-1735

  Trujillo De Santiago, Grissel ^a   Rojas De Gante, Cecilia ^a   García Lara, Silverio ^a   Ballescá Estrada, Adriana ^a   Alvarez, Mario Moisés ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Acids Bases; Applications of Chemistry; Chemical Engineering; Chemometrics; Hands On Learning Manipulatives; pH; Second Year Undergraduate; Upper Division Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925464469     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed500150z     Document Type: Article

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