MöbiusMan
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Making magnesium powder or bits for sodium hydroxide reduction
How can you break up magnesium ribbon into fine particles for use in making sodium-magnesium aggregate? Cutting it up is effort and takes ages so any
suggestions are appreciated.
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You turn a rock tumbler into a mill.
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blender?
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Turnings would be the traditional route. Do you have access to a lathe or drill press?
How brittle is your Mg? My ingots crumble quite easily and I intend to give them a bit of a bash with a hammer.
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Quote: Originally posted by j_sum1  | Turnings would be the traditional route. Do you have access to a lathe or drill press?
How brittle is your Mg? My ingots crumble quite easily and I intend to give them a bit of a bash with a hammer. |
mhh he said magnesium ribbon, using a lathe or drill press would be ok with an ingot as you said, but with ribbon how would you do that?
maybe using first a blender to make fine-ish particles and then a ball mill to make them into powder.
trying to melt the ribbon into an ingot i suppose would end up in a metal fire
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Is it safe to run magnesium ribbon through a blender? I imagine you'd cut or drill the roll into pieces first. I've run aluminum through a coffee
grinder, but magnesium seems more prone to sparking, and most people can't flush their blenders with argon.
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