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It has been established experimentally that when quartz, feldspar, mica, and other minerals are crushed in steel (iron) mills, considerable amounts of hydrogen are evolved from the pulp; this hydrogen can only originate from decomposition of water by very fine iron particles.
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This phenomenon is undergoing detailed study to establish its role in ore flotation.
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Translated from Fiziko-Tekhnicheskie Problemy Razrabotki Poleznykh Iskopaemykh, No. 3, pp. 110–113, May–June, 1967.
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Golosov, S.I., Yusupov, T. & Klassen, V.I. Decomposition of water by highly dispersed iron particles during ore crushing. Soviet Mining Science 3, 297–299 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02497894
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