The Art of Blending & Blender Selection - A Few Basics: Left: laboratory blender. Any blender chosen should be able to work easily to meet all the various competing processes, production needs and solve more problems than it creates.

Powder "blending" or "mixing" (the terms are often used interchangeably) is still an art. It has not yet arrived at the stage of science in that it is a totally predictable process. There are so many factors involved that the study of them individually and then in combination is still on-going...