4. The optimal value of the liquid fraction is found to exist within the range of the experimental conditions.Compression holding time is suggested to have values as large as possible to improve the quality of the final products. This result means that the compression holding time has a positive and a negative correlation on the hardness average and the standard deviation of the hardness, respectively.
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