Granulation funicular state

Newitt and Conway-Iones4 found that there are four types of liquid state of granules depending on the liquid content in the granules. These states are known as pendular, funicular, capillary and droplet. 

Depending on the amount of liquid in the bridges that form a granule, four states of liquid bonding have been identified pendular, funicular, capillary, and droplet (Lloyd, 1983) (Figure 14). In the pendular state, depending on the powder composition, the strongest forces can be involved ... 

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