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Surface Chemistry of Flotation
Abstract
Flotation technology is widely used to recover and concentrate minerals from the ores. The technique involves, inducing surface hydrophobicity to a mineral selectively and collect the same through air bubbles from aqueous phase. For the efficient design of flotation processes and equipment, an in-depth understanding of hydrophobic hydration of floatable mineral particles is essential. The different theories associated with and the underlying mechanisms are surveyed in this paper.
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D.M.R. Sekhar. Surface Chemistry of Flotation. Journal of Modern Chemistry & Chemical Technology. 2016; 7(1): 91–94p.
Keywords
Froth flotation, hydrophobicity, hydrophobic hydration, Galamba’s model, Grunwald’s model
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