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The authors offer a new, nanotechnology-based concept of flotation. The article discusses noncovalent interaction between functional groups of the organic phosphorus collector Phosphenox at an interphase, which results in the supramolecular self-assemblage of stable nanostructures. The ways to reaching complementariness of the collector and active site of a mineral surface are indicated with the aim to improving selectivity of mineral separation.
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Translated from Fiziko-Tekhnicheskie Problemy Razrabotki Poleznykh Iskopaemykh, No. 4, pp. 83–90, July–August, 2010
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Kurkov, A.V., Pastukhova, I.V. Flotation as the Subject-Matter of Supramolecular Chemistry. J Min Sci 46, 438–445 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10913-010-0055-0
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