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A mechanically plausible stainless steel toothed rotor nested inside a slotted cylindrical stator in a clean cutaway view with thin liquid-flow wisps around the clearance.

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Design and Operating Principles of Rotor-Stator Mixers

Dr. Oleg V. Kozyuk

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