http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2016.05.001 0892-6875/ 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Rubio). 1 http://www.ufrgs.br/ltm. 2 In this work, NBs are defined as bubbles that are less than a micron in size (submicron bubbles), although the term ‘‘nano” is applied mostly to sizes of approximately 1–100 nm (ISO/TS 27687:2008). A. A...

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