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Science 25 October 1963:
Vol. 142. no. 3591, pp. 499 - 501
DOI: 10.1126/science.142.3591.499
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Particle Sorting by Repeated Freezing and Thawing

Arturo E. Corte 1

1 Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire

If a hetrogeneous mixture of particles of various sizes is frozen and thawed repeatedly, the particles are sorted into relatively uniformn groups by size. The movement of particles depends on the amount of water between the ice-water interface and the particle, the rate of freezing, the distribution of the particles by size, and the orientation of the freeze-thaw plane.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Particle Sorting and Stone Migration by Freezing and Thawing.
D. R. Inglis and A. E. Corte (1965)
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