Use of Iron Powder (Size -1 mm)

'We have iron powder of -1mm in quantity.....

.....Can anyone guide what usage of this material.'

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1mm of Iron Powder?!? Well I guess is a 'yard' can be used to denote volume, then a 'millimeter' could work the same way.

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So what to do with 1 cubic mm of Iron powder.....

...throw it over your left shoulder and make a wish?

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or, perhaps see if a co-worker will accept a challenge to insufflate the powder.

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We have iron powder of -1mm size in Bulk quantity. This powder is recovered from the slag generated from Induction furnace. The Fe content is ranging from 60% & the phos is 0.1 %.

Can anyone guide what usage of this material.

Thanks

How about putting it back in the process?

"-1mm in quantity". Anything that has negative 1 mm quantity has unique spatial properties.

I believe that's what allowed the Millenium Falcom to make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.

Sure the OP need or want to say < 1mm , it is powder .

Or less than 1 mm average size.

If there's several tonnes, how about road construction? Or how about a blinding layer over the bottom ballast for railway construction, perhaps?

If it's just a few grammes, then spread it on the garden as a fertiliser and soil improver?

Some industrial uses of different grades of iron powder can be found here:

http://www.iron-powder.com/

and here: http://www.hepuremetals.com/

A reducing process is used to obtain a powder with high % iron from mill scale and other powder byproducts of steel making. This would add value to your product, and increase the marketing possibilities.

Mill scale is also marketed directly for use in cement industries and some chemical and welding applications - I am guessing, but I doubt if you would recover your production costs for extraction from slag, in the low end markets for oxides - the lowest value form of iron.

There may be chemical industry applications where 60% iron is acceptable. You may want to inquire to other industries in your area and see if you can find a local market for the product as it is, or whether you are better off adding the reducing process for a highly marketable iron powder. Or you may sell it to someone who has the facilities to do that reducing process for the next level of market.

Here is a 62% iron powder from iron ore being marketed as is, for what market it doesn't say, but very likely for further refining:

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/698691159/Iron_ore_powder.html

Hopefully someone with more experience and knowledge of iron products and industries will see this thread and give you a better answer.