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Changyu Ren, Caide Huang, Lifeng Zhang, and Ying Ren, In situ observation of the dissolution kinetics of Al2O3 particles in CaO–Al2O3–SiO2 slags using laser confocal scanning microscopy, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 30(2023), No. 2, pp. 345-353. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-021-2347-6 |
张立峰 E-mail: zhanglifeng@ncut.edu.cn
任英 E-mail: yingren@ustb.edu.cn
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