Basic regularities of the flotation process
Abstract
By a theory of the flotation process we will conditionally understand only such a concept which, accepting at least a hypothetical but probable explanation of the basic mechanism of the process, makes it possible to predict quantitatively with greater or lesser accuracy the course of the flotation process in time when its conditions change or when one or more of the links constituting the process are affected. Only such a theory will allow to consciously manage the process in the factory and to reduce to a minimum the number of control experiments. The only criterion for the correctness of such a theory can only be the quantitative coincidence of the prediction with the facts of practice, i.e. the results of flotation experiments. My book and represents an attempt to build such a theory of the process, so I gave it the subtitle Experience of the theory of the flotation process. I shall dwell only on some sections of the book and describe in more detail the path that led me to the hypothesis of the molecular mechanism of particle attachment to the bubble.
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