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EXPERIMENTS carried out in this Department suggest that the mechanisms of drying in the constant and falling-rate periods are essentially the same except in one particular respect, namely, the value of the wet-bulb temperature of the air into which drying takes place.
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NISSAN, A., KAYE, W. Mechanism of Drying of Thick Porous Bodies during the Falling-Rate Period. Nature 180, 142–143 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180142a0
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