Gargamel
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Milling down copper oxide
For some experimentation I'd like to have some super fine CuO.
As an anti cake or catalyst for AN, or for Nanothermites for example.
Any stuff I could find is 63µm/200mesh or larger.
I'd like to have something like 5µm.
Do you have any idea if does make any sense to mill this down myself? I could use ceramic or steel balls in my ballmill for extra hard impacts.
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You could try making it yourself by decomposition of Cu(OH)2. That will give an extremely fine powder.
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5µm is much finer than your typical ball mill would achive in any reasonable lenth of time or perhaps in any length of time.
I suspect the decomposition method Cheddite Cheese mentioned wouldn't produce such a fine powder, it's definately worth a try but you'd need a
microscope and a reference material to confirm the particle size.
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Gargamel
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I was under the impression that such oxides are rather brittle and thus mill fine, in contrast to ductile metals.
But I've never tried it thus far.
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Yes!
That ranks pretty high on my buy list for the future, but I'd want a proper one and I'm pretty down and out...
Since a stage micrometer would be another expensive thing - What would you guys use as a reference material?
Something that has a rather narrow size distribution, but what?
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Aurium
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So just a quick post about making powders,
I found this video by chance and thought it may be of some interest,
Rock Disaggregator
Perhaps one can build a system like this, much smaller of course, and get good results powdering materials. Worth a try?
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