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Mixer/MillsPresented by Tim Osborn-Jones

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Pulverizing & Blending

Can hold up to 3 small vials

20 g sample using two vials

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• Efficient laboratory mill for pulverizing hard, brittle samples

• Often described as a shaker mill or high-energy ball mill

• Capable of rapidly reducing solids to analytical fineness or blending a wide range of powders

• Effective for mechanical alloying, well documented in literature “SPEX Mill”

• Extended run times• Membrane control panel • Built in Fan for cooling

8000M Mixer/Mill

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Features & Benefits

Mixer/Mills

•Mixer/Mill is only ball mill that can be used for efficient Mechanical alloying.

•Figure of Eight motion has been proven to be more efficient than side-to-side or planetary motion found in other mills

•Extremely robust

•Large range of grinding vials

•Competitively priced

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• Universities, geology ,materials science, engineering departments

• Industrial laboratories - cement, slag, ceramics, catalysts

• Pharmaceutical companies (Blending, polymers)

• Rock Labs• Electronics (mechanical alloying)• Petroleum companies• Corn milling method G-11 Hexane

extraction method• http://corn.org/methods/G-11.pdf

Mixer/Mills

Who can benefit