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Bulk and Surface Studies of Fly Ash Particles

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Combustion Efficiency and Air Quality

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Coal and oil combustion produces fly ash particulates whose dispersion into the environment represents one of the major sources of pollution.

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  1. Materials Division, CISE Tecnologie Innovative S.p.A., Milan, 20134, Italy

    Costantino Boni & Ezio Cereda

  2. Istituto di Fisica Generale ed Applicata, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, 20133, Italy

    Grazia Maria Braga Marcazzan

  3. Materials Division, CISE Tecnologie Innovative S.p.A., Milan, 20134, Italy

    Fulvio Parmigiani

  4. Facoltà di Scienze, Università di Como, Como, Italy

    Fulvio Parmigiani

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Boni, C., Cereda, E., Marcazzan, G.M.B., Parmigiani, F. (1995). Bulk and Surface Studies of Fly Ash Particles. In: Hargittai, I., Vidóczy, T. (eds) Combustion Efficiency and Air Quality. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1827-3_11

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