Matter
- Name
- plexiglas PMMA polymethyl metacrylate
- Family
- solid
- Database
- Experimentalists
- Level
- from commercial supplier
- Origins
- commercial
- Preparation
- crushed and sieved
- Method
- Hammer crushed by hand and sieved in metallic sieve, from a 6 mm slab PMMA plate. Grain size are sieved smaller than 6 mm to make sure that final facets are not the flat ones from the initial plate.
- Storage condition
- room condition and plastic bag
- Phase type
- solid
- Shape
- granular material, angular grain
- Texture
- loose fine grained
- Type of porosity
- open pores
- Porosity
- 0.3 $\pm$ 0.3
- Texture
- compact with defects
- Grain sizes
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Grains Size min Size max Size median Size width Size mass fraction Grain shape #1 400.0 ${\mu}m$ 800.0 ${\mu}m$ irregular - Comments
- angular grains with small fractures in the boundary of the grains
- Title
- crushed and sieved at 400 - 800 microns
- Matters
- Matter
- plexiglas PMMA polymethyl metacrylate (this matter)
- Processing steps
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Step Date Type Process Changes #1 2022-12-10 mechanical crushing #2 2022-12-10 mechanical sieving