A career in mining chemicals : oral history transcript / with an introduction by Douglas Fuerstenau ; interviews conducted by Fredric L. Quivik in 2001. [c2003]

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A career in mining chemicals : oral history transcript / with an introduction by Douglas Fuerstenau ; interviews conducted by Fredric L. Quivik in 2001. [c2003]

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"Guy Harris retired as a chemist with Dow Chemical in 1982. At Dow, he had been responsible for the development of Z200, a chemical reagent used by mining companies in the flotation process to separate copper minerals from waste minerals, called gangue. Guy's invention of Z200 is credited with increasing the recovery of copper worldwide by 80 million pounds annually."--p. xix.

xx, 128 p. , bound : port. ; 29 cm.

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