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M-CURVE [2 records]

Record 1 2010-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radio Waves

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ondes radioélectriques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ondas radioeléctricas
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Record 2 2007-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Processing of Mineral Products
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
  • Coal Preparation
  • Statistical Graphs and Diagrams
DEF

A cumulative curve used in the first instance to express the washability of a coal, plotted on a vectorial diagram in which the projection of the vector on the abscissa represents the percentage of the product (coal) and the direction of the vector represents the percentage of a particular constituent of the product.

OBS

According to the source ISO, the term "Mayer curve" is deprecated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Préparation des produits miniers
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
  • Préparation des charbons
  • Diagrammes et graphiques (Statistique)
DEF

Courbe représentant les résultats d'une concentration gravimétrique de charbon, et obtenue en portant : en abscisses : la masse relative d'une classe densimétrique; en ordonnées : la masse relative des cendres contenues dans cette classe.

Spanish

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