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DECREPITATION [1 record]

Record 1 2001-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
  • Processing of Mineral Products
DEF

The breaking up with a crackling noise of mineral substances when exposed to heat, as when rock salt is thrown upon the fire.

CONT

Decrepitation. - Some minerals, when laid upon a hot plate, decrepitate, or fly to pieces, through the unequal expansion which overcomes the cohesion of the molecules. Calcite, fluorite, and barite are examples of this. A mineral which decrepitates may be separated from one which does not by decrepitating and sifting; the latter mineral will be found on the sieve, while that which was finely decrepitated will have gone through.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
  • Préparation des produits miniers
DEF

Éclatement d'un fragment de matière sous l'action de la chaleur.

CONT

Séparation par décrépitation. Cette méthode tire profit du comportement particulier de certains minéraux à la chaleur. A l'échelle industrielle, ce système est utilisé uniquement pour l'enrichissement de la baryte. Lorsqu'elle est chauffée au-delà d'une certaine température (...) la baryte se brise en particules de petites dimensions, tandis que les autres espèces minéralogiques qui l'accompagnent demeurent intactes. Il suffit de cribler le matériau pour obtenir un concentré ayant la teneur commerciale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Explotación de minerales (Metalurgia)
  • Preparación de los productos mineros
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