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Mass transfer in the leaching of a solid from a porous sphere

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We derive a sequence of approximate solutions of the problem of the kinetics of the extraction of a solid material uniformly filling the volume of a porous particle when it interacts with a liquid which selectively dissolves this material.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 787–793.

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Aksel'rud, G.A. Mass transfer in the leaching of a solid from a porous sphere. Journal of Engineering Physics 44, 536–541 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00831942

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