Measurement of the specific surface area of porous media throughpressure drop Sirikalaya Suvachittanont, Chikao Kanaoka, AkihiroTsuchinari and Wiwut Tanthapanichakoon 91
Motion of a single particle in a horizontal pipe Xinjian Peng,Yuji Tomita, Hiroyuki Tashiro and Katsuya Funatsu 101
Chemically assisted dry comminution of an inorganicpowder Fumikazu Ikazaki, Kunio Kamiya, Kunio Uchida, Akiko Kawai,Satoshi Yoda and Akihiro Gotoh 111
Powder metallurgical silver--metal oxide electrical contacts by anelectroless coating process P. B. Joshi, R. H. Patel, Prabha S.Krishnan, V. L. Gadgeel, V. K. Kaushik and P. Ramakrishnan 121
Translated Papers
A study of antireflective and antistatic coating with ultrafineparticles Yoshishige Endo, Masahiko Ono, Toshihiro Yamada, HiromitsuKawamura, Katsumi Kobara and Takao Kawamura 131
Micro-feeding of a fine powder using a vibrating capillarytube Shuji Matsusaka, Koji Yamamoto and Hiroaki Masuda 141
The effect of surface characteristics of silica particles onelectrorheology Akiko Kawai, Kunio Uchida, Kunio Kamiya, Akihiro Gotoh,Shigenobu Hayashi and Fumikazu Ikazaki 153
History of civilisation in the western hemisphere from the point ofview of particulate technology, Part 2 Otto Molerus 161
News Bulletin
The First East Asian Professors' Meeting for ParticleTechnology 167
Bulletin of the Association of Powder Process Industry andEngineering, Japan (APPIE) 169
Newsletter of the Society of Powder Technology, Japan 171