My understanding of intercalation is its a process whereby an intercallant material is inserted between the graphene layers of a graphite crystal or particle. So certainly agree with you there
What i dont agree with is the comment about "grinding to you hearts content followed by floatation to achieve extremely high purity" since if the particle size is reduced too much your floatation recoveries decrease dramatically. (Assume you understand the principal of floatation and know why recoveries go down)
micronisation is a colloquial term for partical reduction techniques such as milling and grinding. You do realise that the outcome of these test would have fed into the bfs when developing the flowsheet? Ie the micronisation is upstream of the spherical graphite plant
