Red Shino #2

Red Shino #2

Nepheline/Syenite 79
Lithium Carbonate 1.5
Ball Clay 17
EPK 2.5
100

Bentonite 3
*Atlas Brown Dust 1.5

*Atlas Stainless Steels is a maker of stainless products and owns a plant in Tracy, Québec where sheets of stainless steels are rolled. This brown dust comes from the anti-pollution system of the melting department and has the following general formula:

FE2O3 58%

CR2O3 14%

NIO 5.0%
MNO 7.0%

CAO 7.0%

MGO 6.0%

SIO2 3.0%

TOTAL 100%

This waste material was 170 mesh sieved.

A theoritical substitution is as follows for each 1% of the stuff :

Red Iron Oxide 0.702

Green Chromium Oxide 0.161

Black Nickel Oxide 0.031

Manganese Dioxide 0.046

Dolomite 0.092

Silica 0.014

Totals 1.046

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