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Crushing and pulverizing
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Hardgrove, Ralph M. Stock Equipment Company, Cleveland, Ohio.
Last reviewed:January 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.169400
The reduction of materials such as stone, coal, or slag to a suitable size for their intended uses such as road building, concrete aggregate, or furnace firing. Crushing and pulverizing are processes in ore dressing needed to reduce valuable ores to the fine size at which the valueless gangue can be separated from the ore. These processes are also used to reduce cement rock to the fine powder required for burning, to reduce cement clinker to the very fine size of portland cement, to reduce coal to the size suitable for burning in pulverized form, and to prepare bulk materials for handling in many processes. See also: Ore dressing
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