Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Chemical Family
- CASE Ingredients Functions
- CAS No.
- 12001-26-2
- EC No.
- 601-648-2
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- CASE Ingredients Features
Applications & Uses
- Applications
- Application Method
- Industrial Applications
- Plastics – These micas are excellent additives for plastics to improve flexural modulus, tensile strength, and dimensional stability and as an excellent extender for glass fiber.
- Coatings – When used in coatings, mica platy structure imparts a barrier in the film to improve moisture resistance, chemical resistance, brush ability and promotes film adhesion.
Properties
- Typical Properties
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Aluminum Oxide Content | 31.6 | WT. % | — |
| Aspect Ratio | 20-40 | — | — |
| Bulk Density | 0.22 | g/cc | — |
| Bulk Density | 14.3 | lbs./ft³ | — |
| Iron Oxide Content | 4.9 | WT. % | — |
| Loss of Ignition (at 1,000 ˚C) | max. 4.5 | % | — |
| Magnesium Oxide Content | 0.9 | WT. % | — |
| Median Particle Size (d50) | 60 | Microns | — |
| Median Particle Size (d50) | 100 | Microns | — |
| Melting Point | 1300 | ˚C | — |
| Mohs Hardness | 2.5 | — | — |
| Moisture Content (at 100˚C) | max. 0.4 | % | — |
| Passing (100 Mesh) | 98 | % | — |
| Passing (325 Mesh) | 54 | % | — |
| pH | 9 | — | — |
| Potassium Oxide Content | 10.5 | WT. % | — |
| Silicon Dioxide Content | 46 | WT. % | — |
| Titanium Oxide Content | 0.2 | WT. % | — |
| True Density | 2.85 | g/cc | — |