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Mechanism of Drying of Thick Porous Bodies during the Falling-Rate Period

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EXPERIMENTS carried out in this Department suggest that the mechanisms of drying in the constant and falling-rate periods are essentially the same except in one particular respect, namely, the value of the wet-bulb temperature of the air into which drying takes place.

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  1. Department of Textile Industries, University, Leeds, 2

    A. H. NISSAN & W. G. KAYE

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NISSAN, A., KAYE, W. Mechanism of Drying of Thick Porous Bodies during the Falling-Rate Period. Nature 180, 142–143 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180142a0

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