25 mL Tungsten Carbide Grinding Jar, Pack of 2

The IPD9600-25TC is the 25 mL tungsten carbide grinding jar for the Benchmark Industrial IPD9600 BeadBlaster 96 Ball Mill Homogenizer, sold as pack of 2 jars. The highest-cost 25 mL jar in the catalog ($5,930 vs $3,010 for the stainless steel sister), engineered for hardest-sample workflows (mineral, ceramic, hard polymer, mechanochemistry) where tungsten carbide jar surface delivers the wear resistance required to maintain jar integrity across the workflow service life.

Key Specifications

Why Tungsten Carbide Jars: Hardest-Sample Workflows

Stainless steel grinding jars (IPD9600-25S) are sufficient for standard tough-tissue / bulk-sample workflows but show wear / surface degradation over time when processing hardest-sample materials:

• Mineral / rock samples. Abrasive surfaces wear stainless steel jar walls
• Hard ceramic / metal-oxide samples. Mohs hardness comparable to stainless steel produces mutual wear
• Mechanochemistry workflows. High-energy mechanical reactions stress jar surface

Tungsten carbide (Mohs ~9 hardness). Significantly harder than stainless steel. It provides wear resistance for these hardest-sample workflows, extending jar service life and preventing stainless-steel-derived metal contamination from jar-wall wear.

IPD9600 Grinding Jar Family: Material × Volume Matrix

Application Profile

Mineral / geology sample prep. Geology workflows requiring fine-particle homogenization of hard mineral samples for downstream XRD / ICP-MS / FT-IR analysis.

Industrial / materials science workflows. Sample-prep from hard polymer / ceramic / metal-oxide starting materials.

Mechanochemistry workflows. Chemical reactions induced by mechanical energy where tungsten carbide jar provides sufficient wear resistance for sustained high-energy operation.

Bone fragment grinding. Forensic / archaeological / clinical-research workflows where dense / hard bone samples wear stainless steel jar surfaces.

Pharmaceutical sample prep at hard-sample scale. Pharma / biotech sample homogenization where regulated metal-impurity standards exclude stainless-steel-derived contamination.

Method-development high-energy workflows. Protocol-development workflows requiring extended-cycle high-energy operation where stainless steel would wear excessively.

Tungsten Carbide vs Tungsten Carbide Beads

The IPD9600-25TC tungsten carbide jar pairs naturally with tungsten carbide grinding balls (IPD9600-10TCB at $33 each) for fully tungsten carbide bead + jar workflows, eliminating stainless steel contamination from both bead and jar surfaces. For hardest-sample workflows where tungsten / cobalt contamination is acceptable, this pairing delivers the highest-energy bead-mill workflow available in the IPD9600 ecosystem.

Ordering & Configuration

Pair with tungsten carbide grinding balls. Pair with IPD9600-10TCB ($33/ball) for fully WC bead + jar workflow.

Confirm material requirement. Tungsten carbide is over-engineered for standard workflows. Confirm hardness / wear / metal-contamination requirements justify the $5,930 procurement vs $3,010 stainless steel alternative.

Confirm at quote: chassis pairing (IPD9600 in inventory), workflow material requirement (hardest-sample / mineral / mechanochemistry justifying tungsten carbide), bead pairing (IPD9600-10TCB recommended), and lead time.

Warranty: Per Benchmark Industrial standard accessory terms. Confirm at quote.

Benchmark Industrial IPD9600 grinding-jar family (see family table above for full material × volume matrix).

Pick the 25 mL tungsten carbide jar for hardest-sample / mineral / mechanochemistry workflows; sister IPD9600-25S stainless steel jar covers standard tough-tissue / bulk-sample workflows at significantly lower cost.