| Measuring physical properties of crops is necessary for optimal harvesting, cleaning, threshing, sorting, drying, and milling operations. Despite an extensive literature review, there is no information about the physical properties of the wild safflower seed. In this study the physical properties of the wild safflower seed have been investigated as a function of moisture content at four levels (5.4%, 9.4% (initial), 13.4%, and 17.4% d.b.). The average length (mm), width (mm), thickness (mm), arithmetic mean diameter (mm), geometric mean diameter (mm), sphericity (%), volume (cm³), seed surface area (cm²), terminal velocity (m/s), bulk density (gr/cm³), actual density (gr/cm³), and porosity (%) at initial moisture content were 6.418, 3.499, 3.388, 4.435,... |
