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Particle size of KNO3 can be kept smaller as in case of ball milling Wet process: KNO3 can be soaked into charcoal pores CIA method: relative weaknesses: Cannot ensure small particle size/good integration of (water-insoluble) charcoal and sulphur Ball milling: relative weaknesses:

Ball Mills - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

8.3.2.2 Ball mills. The ball mill is a tumbling mill that uses steel balls as the grinding media. The length of the cylindrical shell is usually 1–1.5 times the shell diameter ( Figure 8.11). The feed can be dry, with less than 3% moisture to minimize ball coating, or slurry containing 20–40% water by weight.

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A ball mill is a type of grinder used to grind materials into extremely fine powder. 7 . Major parameters for ball milling Temperature Size and Number of the balls Nature of the balls Rotation speed 8 . Types of Ball …

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Step 1: you first need to measure out your water and kno3. the way you do that is according to the chart, the solubility is 2.5 grams per ml at 100°c, so you divide the amount of kno3 you have by 2.5 and you then get the amount of water you need to add in ml. Ask Question.

Golden powder (KNO3 + Ascorbic Acid) without heating : pyro

So I ball milled KNO3 and ascorbic acid powder together (30 mins each separately, 30 minutes together in 70/30 ratio by weight). Afterwards I added alcohol/water and some corn starch to the resulting mix to knead, and pressed it into pellets with a copper tube press actuated with a C-clamp by hand.

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Mechanochemical synthesis of nano-biochar by ball-milling technology is gaining attention for the sake of its low-cost and eco-friendly nature. Ball milling as a non-/less-solvent technology can propel environmental sustainability and waste

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Ball milling Black Powder with ceramic media Hello all mad scientists out there! ... How would you make sure you have as small kno3-crystals as possible when you dry it? So far as I've heard about black powder on forums and videos and such, you DON'T want the finest crystals as possible. That's why people make granulated gunpowder.

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Rcandy cannot be made by ball milling, it must be melted in order to precipitate the KNO3 into the sucrose (sugar), what you have is a binary mix. (See James Yawn or Rich Nakka) Edited by dagabu, 12 September 2009 - 10:18 PM.

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Ball mills o Best way for hobbyist to make good fast black powder o Easy to build or purchase yourself o Can use lead (recommended) or ceramic for milling media o Recommend getting Lloyd Sponenberg's book "Ball Milling Theory and Practice" ($19.94 at Amazon) o Using an efficient ball you can make high quality BP in less than 3 hours

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bulk chemicals in ball milling. Like below: Fishing weights: Marbles: Ball Bearings: Muzzle Loading Balls: Nuts off of bolts: I know that you must use non sparking for BP ball milling but I was just wondering about for grinding raw chemicals such KNO3 and NaNO3 from their prills as sodium nitrate. Thank you Bryan B

How to Grind Granular Potassium Nitrate with a Coffee ...

Successfully Milling Potassium Nitrate with a Coffee Blade Grinder Conclusion Granular potassium nitrate can be dried if necessary, and ground easily with a ball mill or with a coffee blade mill, so that it passes through a 100-mesh screen and is ready to be used in pyrotechnic compositions. Materials Needed. Potassium Nitrate, prilled (ZCH5302)

KNO3 + Aluminum powder [homemade Blackpowder substitute ...

I failed with classic BP receipt and want to see if KNO3 + Aluminum powder mixed in ball mill will work nice and how smokeless it is for 9mm, 38 spl and 357 Magnum reloads. Skipper. 07-31-2016, 11:22 PM. It would be easier to just step in front of a bus. lup. 07-31-2016, 11:31 PM.

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Having recently bought a ball mill I thought - no problem, the ball mill will turn that to a fine powder. I put the charcoal in and left it turning overnight. When I opened the drum the mill had produced some standing liquid and the charcoal had turned into a stiff cake like consistency. This came as quite a surprise.

Purifying Potassium Nitrate (KNO3) : 6 Steps - Instructables

-If you would like to, ball mill your potassium nitrate using steel or high-alumina media.-50% Magnesium/50% KNO3 makes a pretty sweet flash powder. Ball mill the Mg and KNO3 …

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Hallo allemaal, Vorig jaar heb ik een order geplaatst bij Pyrocreations en dit is allemaal netjes en verzorgd aangekomen. Pyrocreations verkoopt ook ball mills voor redelijke prijzen. Alleen er zijn nergens reviews te vinden over deze ball mills. Heeft er iemand ooit een ball mill …

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in other words again, if I ball mill without KNO3, can I ball mill in my garage? Last edited by Whiterabbit; 03-06-2014 at 02:39 PM. 03-06-2014, 01:58 PM #191. SSGOldfart. View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Boolit Master Join Date Sep 2011 Location East Texas Posts 1,924. yep good ideal "I think we have a sticky here. ...

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Ball mill the charcoal and sulphur mix for about 3 hours (without adding any potassium nitrate). Add 75 parts of potassium nitrate (powdered) to the charcoal and sulphur mix in the ball mill. Also add 6 parts water to the mix before ball milling, this will dramatically reduce the probability of accidental ignition of the mixture during milling.

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Lloyd Sponenburgh, in his Ball Milling Theory and Practice for the Amateur Pyrotechnician, tells us his explorations into ball milling began when he was faced with having to do all that grinding with a mortar and pestle to achieve small particle size and intimately mix his chemicals.Lloyds's book is the most complete and practical resource I know for information on ball milling …

Question about ball milling - Pyrotechnics - Forum

It could be the charcoal or the KNO3 holding the moisture, you would have to make sure that both ore completely dry before ball milling to get it to not clump. The recommendation is to check the ball mill every 30 minutes and/or tap the jar to break up the clumps. Personally, I don't mill BP in the summer and wait until its winter to mill BP.

Ball Mill - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

The ball mill is a tumbling mill that uses steel balls as the grinding media. The length of the cylindrical shell is usually 1–1.5 times the shell diameter (Figure 8.11).The feed can be dry, with less than 3% moisture to minimize ball coating, or slurry containing 20–40% water by weight.

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I believe most modern home-brewers incorporate their powder by ball-milling all three ingredients together for several hours. Since I started playing with the Chinese precip method, I ball-mill the charcoal and sulfur together (no need to ball-mill the KNO3 since it's going into solution).

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Using the scale, measure 14 grams of potassium nitrate or saltpeter (KNO3) and 7 grams of sugar. This makes enough propellant for a single 2"-long rocket motor. Blend the ingredients by placing them into a tightly covered plastic container with a handful of large lead fishing weights or .50-caliber lead balls.

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Ball Mill. The ball mill is the best way to grind and you can also grind all the ingredients for black powder together. A ball mill is really a rock tumbler. The rock tumbler is …

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I'm milling everything dry in an improvised ball mill (peanut butter jar with #000 buckshot), than wetting the milled components with 90% alcohol to be combined and compacted into cakes. Performance-wise, ascorbic acid/KNO3 powder is said to be slightly below that of traditional blackpowder.

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Starch based bio-latex has been widely researched in the coating paper area for the purpose of partial replacement of petroleum-based binders. In this paper, a green and facile ball milling pretreatment was proposed to modify the starch granules before α-amylase hydrolysis by breaking up their cryst …

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I use KClO4 to balance the binder, but make sure not to add any more sensitive oxidizers than KNO3 pre-milling. I use 4.2% dextrin, 4.2% Parlon and 8.3% KClO4 and wet with a 50-50 acetone water mix--its probably a bit excessive, but it doesn't slow down the BP, and I get very hard grains.

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High energy milling was performed in dry atmosphere using twin planetary ball-mill machine (Insmart, India) containing tungsten carbide bowl (100 ml) loaded with (KNO 3 + KI) powder mixture along with 2–4 tungsten carbide balls (∼10 mm diameter). The bowls were rotated @350 rpm.

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Practical 1: Title: Ball Milling Objective: To grind the coarse salt to a smaller size by using a ball mill and to obtain the particle size distribution of the initial and the sieved final mixture. Introduction: 'Ball milling is a method used to break down the …

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Good, I have like 3 lbs of KNO3, just made a ball mill for Al powder. Al powder ? are you doing it with KNO3 ? Aluminum powder have a very high temperature of activation to burn or make flash powder, due to its oxide layer protection and its high boiling point. Zyklon-A. International Hazard.

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The mill is rotated at high speed for up to 48 hours or longer. The result is a very finely powdered charcoal/sulfur mixture. (Note: for reasons which should be very obvious, the Potassium Nitrate is not mixed in with the fuel during the milling stage, unless you want to be picking bits of your ball mill out of the walls of your factory.) Ball ...

Milling KNO3 - Pyrotechnics - Forum

Milling KNO3 - posted in Pyrotechnics: I decided to mill some KNO3 in my ball mill to get fine powder for later use, so that I would not have to powder it in a mortar every time I need it, and I got some really surprising results. I got no powder at all, instead, all of the KNO3 had turned into rock hard balls with sizes ranging from grape size to almost golf ball size.

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Double Component Milling + Dissolved KNO3 124 Pressing and Corning 124 Beyond Corning 125 Competition Grade Black Powder Revisited 125 GOEX Black Powder Revisited 127 ... Ball Milling Cheaply 136 A Cheap Junk Box Ball Mill 136 Cheaper Sieves 138 Cheaper Temperature Control 140 Chapter 12 - The Chemistry of Black Powder.142

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I want to mix by ball milling KNO3 or Mg(NO3)2 with natural kaolinit or Feldspar or silica, is it safe to mill them? 2. What about K2SO4 with Ca(NO3)2 or Mg(NO3)2? Silicate.

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KNO3 was another matter. 4 hours hardly touched it. So I switched to US nickels. In 8 hours the KNO3 was very fine but the nickels had compacted KNO3 on the face and back of the coins so thick that the coins looked like little footballs in profile. What a mess! I then re milled the coins with marbles and salvaged most of the KNO3.

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Page 1 of 2 - Hot BP without ball milling? How? - posted in Newbie Questions: Hey so I was watching this video that shows how to make fast burning black powder without a ball mill media costs me $50 US so if someone could explain how it is possible that he can make such fast BP without ball milling it that would be great. He is using balsa wood by the way.