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PROF. KAMIENSKI suggests1 that the adsorption of certain organic substances at the surfaces of platinum, graphite, and galena is due to an electrostatic attraction between them and globules of an emulsion formed by the organic substance. It is claimed that these solid surfaces are positively charged and that the emulsion is negatively charged. He then proposes that such an action is the basis of flotation.
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NATURE, 129, 59, Jan. 9, 1932.
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WARK, I. Electrostatic Explanation of the Phenomenon of Flotation. Nature 129, 833 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129833b0
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