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The fertilizers industry is one of the major industries of the world, with a total output in 1970 of a-bout 200 million tons of products and a growth rate of about 8,5% per year (1). Among the main directions of research to be taken into consideration in this field are a) the study of the thermal behavior of fertilizers and b) the research of a method for a sufficiently rapid and simple characterization of such products (2):
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thermal reactions may occur, after manufacture or mixing, during drying, storage and handling (3,4,5);
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the rapid determination of the chemical compound a-ctually present at the various stages of production and in the finished products allows to act promptly in directing the process underway in the desired sense
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Giavarini, C. (1974). Thermal Behavior of Chemical Fertilizers. In: Porter, R.S., Johnson, J.F. (eds) Analytical Calorimetry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4509-2_51
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