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The Bureau of Mines, US Department of the Interior, has investigated the use of rheology to provide insight into the mechanism of flocculation. A technique developed by Tattersall has been modified and used to explain the flocculation of calcium montmorillonite with polyethylene oxide. The results indicated that there are two types of bond systems operating during the flocculation sequence. Also, flocculation results are highly dependent on the shear rate and the amount of polymer added.
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SME preprint 89-141, SME Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, January 1989. M&MP paper 89-612. Discussion of this paper must be submitted, in duplicate, prior to Jan. 31, 1990.
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Scheiner, B.J., Stanley, D.A. Use of rheology to explain the flocculation of calcium montmorillonite. Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration 6, 206–210 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03403464
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