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Dawei Yu and Kinnor Chattopadhyay, Enhancement of the nickel converter slag-cleaning operation with the addition of spent potlining, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 25(2018), No. 8, pp. 881-891. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-018-1637-0 |
Dawei Yu E-mail: dawei.yu@hotmail.com
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