Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Dec. 2009
In a broad sense, flotation refers to the support that a body will observe on the surface of a liquid..
Meanwhile, the concept of floating, in the aforementioned sense, is based on one of the principles outlined by the Greek mathematicianArchimedes in his studies about it.
Because according to him, any body that is totally or fit partial immersed in a fluid is subjected to a force which will be equal to the fluid on which it lies.
The mechanism, to make it clearer, would be the following: when a body is totally submerged or half in a fluid, a part of the latter is separated, while this fluid on which it is immersed the body will exert vertical pressure with direction up, which, not in its entirety, but tends to paralyze the force of gravity, which is also vertical, which will point down, then, The rising force is called the buoyant or thrust force and the magnitude will be exactly equal to the weight of the fluid that has been displaced. From all this explanation arises the following
conclusion: if the body weighs less than the fluid, the body will float in the fluid in question, on the other hand if it is heavier, the tendency is to sink.On the other hand, the term float, at the request of the mining, it turns out to be the one physicochemical process that is recurrently used to recover minerals and also to carry out their concentration in those species that present various types of mineralization, taking advantage in these cases of their natural properties through chemical reagents.
In the latter case, the work that is printed is done with the aim of giving them a suitable commercial level. It turns out to be widely used when recycling copper, although it is also very common for this process to be used to clean Water used with fat or oil content to be able to reuse it later.
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