Particle Size and Shape Analysis – A Challenging Test

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Particle Size and Shape Analysis – A Challenging Test

03 Sep, 2012

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Dr Graham Rideal
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The trouble with particle size analysis is that size is often quoted as a single number, such as, a 500 micron powder. The only particles that fulfil this

criterion are those that are perfectly spherical in shape and exactly the same size. A simple analogy would be taking a ball bearing from a store bin.

One could safely assume that, within the specified tolerance, all the ball bearings would be spherical in shape and of the same size.

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