ATTRITORS AND BALL MILLS HOW THEY WORK Robert E. .
Ball mills work well on hard, brittle materials. They are not as suitable for grinding elastic, ductile or fibrous materials, or for fine grinding in general. Ball mills can blend and grind at the same time, yielding a fine, intimate mixture. Conventional ball mills are usually limited to a particle size of 1µ after one hour of grinding since gravity causes the particles to fall out of the ...