jar mill

English

Noun

jar mill (plural jar mills)

1. A small ball mill with a jar-like drum.
   • 2004, American Society for Testing & Materials, Glass - Ceramic Whitewares, →ISBN, page 73:

     Either a special steel mortar or a special steel jar mill may be used as alternative means of preparing a crushed sample of glass.

   • 2013, F. Singer, Industrial Ceramics, →ISBN, page 671:

     For laboratory use and for grinding colours and enamels porcelain pot or jar mills are used.

   • 2017, J Gubicza, Defect Structure and Properties of Nanomaterials, →ISBN:

     The jar mills are low-energy mills, although they can provide higher energy milling if sufficiently large diameter in order of meters and many balls are used.