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A-Z glossary

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Air-Knife Coating

The so-called air knife acts on the principle of a doctor blade and uses a thin, flat jet of air to remove the excess coating from a wet sheet which has just passed through the coating zone.