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Physics of Impregnation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

J. Roy Nelson
J. Roy Nelson*
Affiliation:
Material Testing Laboratory
*
mtl@njcc.com

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There appears to be some confusion as to how materials are impregnated or dried. Without getting into the exciting mathematical details best suited for persons who second language is Greek, I offer the following short explanation as to how materials are impregnated or dried.

If the object is porous, the porosity is described in terms of macropores (>50 nm), mesopores (50 - 2 nm), and micropores (2 - 0.8 nm). These three size classes of pores represent different flow mechanisms for the impregnation of porous materials. Solvent penetration of a non-porous particle by imbibing is similar mathematically to solvent penetration of micropores although the actual mechanism is quite different.

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 24
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2000

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