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T.K. Filmix brings results that have been impossible
to obtain with conventional mixers. The outcome of gravitation pull
on material under large centrifugal force is almost immeasureable.
"Interface," the contact of the surface of a substance
to the surface of something else, is the contact surface (or boundary
surface) which can be come unstable when different substances mix.
As like substances come together the material goes from a mixture
to a decomposition of elements or dispersion.
In Part 1 and Part 3, we demonstrated how liquid droplets would
align to a submicron level, and in Part 2, showed how recoagulation
is prevented in particles after mixing to give the combined solution
stability.
The following is from test data using Filmix at the instant when
different materials contact. What affects the diameter of the particle
is not the time when substances are combined, but the initial contact.
This is an actual example of a dispersion test on an additive. We
compared sample 1 that was prepared by pre-mixing with Powder Filmix
for only an instant and then dispersed fully using a Filmix (Test
1), and sample 2 that was pre-mixed for one hour using a Homomixer
M2 and then mixed using Filmix for further atomization (Test 2).

Pre-mixing with Homomixer M2 resulted in a much finer mixture but
after secondary mixing, the opposite occurred. This is a result
of a big variance in the interface that is possible because Filmix
makes initial contact instantaneous and even. We have found that
this phenomenon does not occur in all materials processed, and we
are currently in the process of making more detailed study and analyses.
We are considering the possibility that pre-mixing and pre-dispersing,
which has been common practice in the past, may actually have a
negative effect when multiple substances are combined.
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