Why would a low fire transparent require four frits?

Sunday 22nd October 2017

To get the needed chemistry to avoid insight-live.com/glossary/129">boron blue clouding (calcium borate crystals). The one on the right clouds, the other does not. Why? Differences in the chemistry (as seen in my account at insight-live.com). G2931K, on the left, has greater Al2O3 (which impedes the growth of crystals), lower CaO (starves their growth) and more boron (for better melting). There is actually no practical way to adjust the recipe on the right (by supplying MgO with talc and fiddling with frit percentages) to achieve this. Frit 3124 lacks Na2O and B2O3. 3134 has excessive CaO and almost zero Al2O3. Talc does not melt well enough. But Frit 3249 supplies the needed MgO and has lots of B2O3 and low CaO. And Frit 3110 has low CaO and supplies the needed Na2O.

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G2931K - Low Fire Fritted Zero3 Transparent Glaze, G1916M - Low Fire Frit 3134:3124 Glossy Transparent, Click here for case-studies of Insight-Live fixing problems, Boron Blue, Frit

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