If you continued to grind sand into finer and ... - reddit
Nov 23, 2013 · Generally, no. "Sand" is primarily considered to be a polymeric mass of silicon dioxide chains, essentially chemically same as common glass. If you reduced the particle size enough, it would turn from sand into a very fine powder. To see what happens when you reduce the particle size further, you have to turn to chemistry.
Top responsesPowders with a spherical morphology that can slide past one another will behave like a liquid even with a rather large particle size. I have some spray dried silicon . read more2K votesThe weirdest solid I know of is glass microballoons used as epoxy filler. They're literally microscopic glass balloons. I have a clear plastic gallon tub of . read more26 votesThis is youtube video with a university professor explaining such an experiment. (they used very fine glass beads to represent sand) Granular Jets (slow . read more18 votesisn't one of the fundamental principles of something being liquid that its particles follow a random walk even when free of external force. Lots of folks here . read more8 votesChemically, sand particles will not act as a liquid, but mechanically they can. There is an entire field of modeling for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for . read more8 votesLots of people are saying now and that is true if you are just grinding up the solid. However, just by adding air current you can 'fluidize' a particle bed and basically . read more3 votesSee all
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