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Rongzhen Mo, Xubin Zhang, Ying Ren, Junjie Hu, and Lifeng Zhang, Influence of substituting B2O3 with Li2O on the viscosity, structure and crystalline phase of low-reactivity mold flux, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 30(2023), No. 7, pp. 1320-1328. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-023-2621-x |
任英 E-mail: yingren@ustb.edu.cn
张立峰 E-mail: zhanglifeng@ncut.edu.cn
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