Mill (grinding)
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A grinding mill is a unit operation designed to break a solid material into smaller pieces. There are many different types of grinding mills and many types of materials processed in them. Historically mills were powered by hand (mortar and pestle), working animal, wind (windmills) or water (watermill). Today they are also powered by electricity.
[edit] Types of grinding mills
- Ball mill
- Colloid mill
- Disk mill
- Flour mill
- Grist mill
- Hammer mill
- Jet mill
- Mortar and pestle
- Oil mill
- Wiley mill
- Windmill
[edit] See also
cs:Mlýn de:Mühle eo:Muelejo fr:Moulin io:Mueleyo it:Mulino hu:Malom lb:Millen nl:Molen pl:Młyn ru:Мельница sv:Kvarn wa:Molén
