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Pulverizing Rocks Using a Ring Mill
File Name m00008.img.804.ring.mill.jpg
Data Type photograph
Computer Program Adobe Illustrator CS2
File Size 413.00 KB - 2 files [ jpg,pdf ]
Expert Level High School (Grade 9-12)
Contributor ERESE Database Team
Source Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Resource Matrix The Formation of Seamounts
Description
To be able to work only with mineral separates and basaltic rock grains, one has to break up whole pieces of solid rock into a fine gravel that can be further processed. To reduce the sample to gravel, pieces of sample as large as one-by-one inch blocks, are put through a jaw crusher that generates a gravel which can be further processed. This gravel then gets processed with a ring mill that contains a ring and a puck inside a metal bowl. The bowl gets closed off and then swinged around so that the ring and puck start to move and pulverize the gravel to a finer powder.
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