LOI profiles of more common glaze and body materials

Thursday 9th October 2014

These are pure samples (with 2% binder added) of (top left to bottom right) insight-live.com/material/1609">strontium carbonate, nepheline syenite, cobalt carbonate, manganese dioxide, bentonite (in bowl), 6 Tile kaolin, New Zealand kaolin and copper carbonate. I am firing them at 50F increments from 1500F and weighing to calculate loss on ignition for each. I want to find out at what temperature they are gassing (and potentially bubble-disrupting the glaze they are in or under). Notice how the copper is fuming and spitting black specks on the shelf, this happens right around 1500F. These stains on the shelf darkened considerably when the kiln was fired higher.

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Copper Carbonate Basic, Strontium Carbonate, LOI, Copper Carbonate, Dimpled glaze, 200-Decarbonation

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