comminution

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The causes for the low concentrate contents which sometimes occur are: too wide a range of classification of the feed material for the wet mechanical sorting, too coarse comminution (liberation not yet attained) or very finely intergrown ores, for which the separation cut-off size in the fine-grain beneficiation is insufficient.

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  1. The act of comminuting or reducing to fine particles or to a powder; pulverization. [It] is only wrought together, and fixed by sudden intermixture and comminution. Bacon, Physical Fables, xi., Expl.
  2. In surgery, a comminute fracture.
  3. Attenuation or diminution by small abstractions.

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  • The causes for the low concentrate contents which sometimes occur are: too wide a range of classification of the feed material for the wet mechanical sorting, too coarse comminution (liberation not yet attained) or very finely intergrown ores, for which the separation cut-off size in the fine-grain beneficiation is insufficient. —  Chapter 20
  • Consequently, attempts to improve processing-plant throughput should be directed toward achieving a continuous mode of operation in which the entire raw-ore feed quantity undergoes comminution, sorting and classifying steps. —  Chapter 20
  • Hence, it is absolutely necessary to ensure that comminution is performed so as to produce the smallest possible quantity of fines. —  Chapter 20
  • In this case the comminution was extreme and accompanied by the usual long lateral fragments, one of which measured five inches in length and might well have extended into the knee-joint had that been an ordinary occurrence Perforations of the lower extremity of the bone were very common. —  Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
  • (i) Ore comminution (i.e. the crushing and grinding of rock) can be done in a simple crushers and ball mills. —  Chapter 11
 

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  1. = French comminution, from Latin as if *comminutio(n-), from comminuere: see comminute, v.
 

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