Specifications :
High energy ball mill, a.k.a. shaker mill
General information :
The Spex Mixer/Mill is an efficient, compact laboratory mill capable of pulverizing samples in the 10-gram range. The Spex is a shaker or high-energy ball mill and shakes containers back and forth about 1080 cycles per minute. The mill can be used to reduce hard, brittle samples to analytical fineness, blend powders, make emulsions and perform mechanical alloying.
The sample is contained in a vial and fixed inside the clamp. The mill shakes the vial in a figure-8 shaped motion. When using milling balls inside the vial, the balls impact against the vial and each other at each swing, and mill and blend the powder.