The fluidisation behaviour of potato chips and cuboids in a 150 mm diameter vertical pipe has been investigated. The parameters studied include the quality of fluidisation, the friction factor and the ...

Artwork: The impact hit with the energy equivalent to 10 billion Hiroshima bombs It is hard to imagine billions of tonnes of rock suddenly start to splosh about like a liquid - but that is what ...

Kimberlites are volatile-rich magmas from mantle depths of ≥150 km and are the primary source of diamonds. Kimberlite volcanism involves the formation of diverging pipes or diatremes, which are the ...

It is hard to imagine billions of tonnes of rock suddenly start to splosh about like a liquid - but that is what happened when an asteroid struck the Earth 66 million years ago. Scientists have now ...