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Is it, the further you go down in to your “Nestle Clusters” breakfast cereal, the less clusters there are!!!
It’s actually a problem companies have paid millions researching as it happens alot with more important products, but if you were to shake a glass full of the pproducts (with a lid and small gap so they can move around as they would when in transport) you would notice the smaller particles sedimenting at the bottome of the glass. It may take some time to notice, but it is indeed a problem. It is caused purely by the disruption during transport of the produts and the relative sizes of the grains. There are many reasons for this, the simplest explanaion would be that the large grains impede each other and leave gaps that smaller grains can fall between, which is certainly a factor, but there are more forces at work. One must take in to account the relative forces of differing particles, for example the effect of air drag, although it may be minimal in a box of cereal, is important. As is the difference in elastic properties of the different particles, density of the particles, friction, surface texture, etc.
Although research in this area would seem uneccesary, think of the transportation of powders in the pharmecutical industry, if the different compounds which need to remain mixed were to segregate during transportation then the entire batch may be rendered useless wthout further mixing ( a process not always available at the destination, especially in shops!).
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It’s actually a problem companies have paid millions researching as it happens alot with more important products, but if you were to shake a glass full of the pproducts (with a lid and small gap so they can move around as they would when in transport) you would notice the smaller particles sedimenting at the bottome of the glass. It may take some time to notice, but it is indeed a problem. It is caused purely by the disruption during transport of the produts and the relative sizes of the grains. There are many reasons for this, the simplest explanaion would be that the large grains impede each other and leave gaps that smaller grains can fall between, which is certainly a factor, but there are more forces at work. One must take in to account the relative forces of differing particles, for example the effect of air drag, although it may be minimal in a box of cereal, is important. As is the difference in elastic properties of the different particles, density of the particles, friction, surface texture, etc.
Although research in this area would seem uneccesary, think of the transportation of powders in the pharmecutical industry, if the different compounds which need to remain mixed were to segregate during transportation then the entire batch may be rendered useless wthout further mixing ( a process not always available at the destination, especially in shops!).
In short, Don’t shake the box!
unfortunatley the damage will have already been done in transportation. You ould decant the product and mix it yourslef if you wanted, as a solution.
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