Commercial-grade zirconia powder (average, 10-mu m particle size) compacts with 5 wt% of calcia have been sintered (batchwise) in a short time using an indigenously made low-cost extended are thermal plasma heating (EATPH) ...

Studies on thermal plasma synthesis of calcium titanate slag by plasma smelting of ilmenite (Chhatrapur, India) is reported. The effect of flux on removal of iron and metal-slag separation was also studied. A slag rich in ...

The in vitro somatic embryogenesis offers a better option for propagation, conservation and improvement especially for vegetatively propagated crops. Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and tare (Colocasia esculenta), the ...

In the latter half of this decade, the demand for cobalt in India has increased sharply-from 55 tonnes in 1995 to more than 500 tonnes in 1998. As India does not have domestic cobalt feedstock sufficient to meet most of ...

The Uranium ore treatment plant at Jaduguda, India, recovers copper, nickel and molybdenum as byproducts before the bulk flotation tailings are subjected to leaching to recover uranium values. The recoveries of these sulfide ...