Glossary

Pulverization

Pulverization is the operation of reducing a solid material to powder for industrial or pharmaceutical processing or use. It is the mechanical reduction of coarse pieces into smaller particles between 100 and 50 μm in size. Pulverization or fine grinding has many advantages: homogeneous mixtures, and improvement of tolerability of preparations, extraction processes and adsorption characteristics, it also affects the characteristics of tablets and the flowability of powders.