“…with varying hardness, strength, surface reactivity, size, shape, toughness etc. are being used in FMs and few papers are available on the influence of such particles on tribological characteristics of FMs [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. In our earlier work [8,18] while exploring six types of abrasives (alumina, silica, zirconia, SiC, quartz and flint)in various amounts (0, 2, 4 and 6%), it was concluded that 2% was the optimum amount for the best combination of properties.…”