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Chapter 6 Understanding the views
Page 6-12 MAN 0384
Consider a cylindrical particle of diameter 20 microns and length 60 microns. The
volume of the cylinder is:
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The sphere of equivalent volume would have a diameter centred on:
with a spread from 20 to 60mm.
It is interesting to compare this with other techniques. Sieving would pass the par-
ticles through a 20mm aperture and classify them as 20mm. Sedimentation would
give a result related to the total surface area, in this case reporting a diameter of
around 40mm.
If there’s a need to correlate laser diffraction results with values from some other
technique, consider applying a shape correction using the
Result Modification
procedure built into the Malvern software.
V
π
10
µ
m
( )
2
60
µ
m
( )
=
6 V
π
-------
3
33
µ
m =
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