Maybe; if we knew what you were talking about. ■

Let me guess. Moisture tends to inhibit segregation by making the sand less free flowing so, if the sand is dried to a greater degree by this process, it will allow the freer movement of the particles and aggrevate the tendency to segregate. Otherwise, more details of the application is needed to understand the situation. ■

Lynn,

I wonder if you statement means:

" moisture tends to increase or enhance segregation" and not "moisture tends to inhibit (stop?) segregation by making it less free flowing"

Maybe you can correct my thinking: in a less than fluidized state an increase in moisture will tend to bind the smaller ( < 0.1 mm)particles by surface tension thereby causing a separation of small and large particles. Don't the larger particles act in a more free flowing manner, while the smaller particles tend to agglomerate?

I agree that the drying, by adding soda, will make for a freer movement of the particles and (inhibit?) aggrevate the tendency to segregate.

Maybe I cannot think in the double negative and am in general confused? I applogize with such anticipation.

Heating will obviously drive off moisture and improve flowability. How is not my forte.

All this is relative and can be skewed by the data. ■