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WhatsApp: +86 188380728291. Introduction. Ball milling is a critical process to reduce product size into a desired size range, which has been widely used in industries such as minerals processing, cement manufacturing, pharmaceutical industries and powder metallurgy [1, 2].The milling process is affected by many parameters, including ground particles, mill speed [3], milling time [4], ball to powder ratio (BPR) [4, 5 ...
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