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CONSIDERABLE interest attaches, both on the scientific and on the technical side, to the study of powders which are sufficiently fine to differ markedly in their properties from massive crystals, o while they are sufficiently coarse to differ equally widely from colloidal suspensions. One important property of powders, namely the caking of salts (a phenomenon which was responsible for the disastrous explosion at Oppau), was discussed at a joint meeting of the London Section of the Society of Chemical Industry and of the Faraday Society on March i, 1920. This has now been followed up by a joint meeting of the Faraday Society and the Oil and Colour Chemists' Association, held at Burlington House on March 9 last, when the material presented was sufficiently abundant to call for an adjourned discussion on March 23.
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The Properties of Powders. Nature 109, 496–497 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109496a0
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