An experimental investigation of the influence of electric field on the collision-coalescence of water drops
By: S. K. Paul, A. Mary Selvam and Bh. V. Ramana Murty
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v31i4.10435 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 279 - 289
Submitted on: Apr 3, 1978
Published on: Jan 1, 1979
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 1979 S. K. Paul, A. Mary Selvam, Bh. V. Ramana Murty, published by Stockholm University Press
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