Can you make things from zircopax? Yes.


Thursday 16th April 2015

Only 3% insight-live.com/material/1672">Veegum will plasticize Zircopax (zirconium silicate) enough that you can form anything you want. It is even more responsive to plasticizers than calcined alumina is and it dries very dense and shrinkage is quite low. Zircon is very refractory (has a very high melting temperature) and has low thermal expansion, so it is useful for making many things (the low thermal expansion however does not necessarily mean it can withstand thermal shock well). Of course you will have to have a kiln capable of much higher temperatures than are typical for pottery or porcelain to sinter it well.

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Zircopax, Co-efficient of Thermal Expansion, Refractory, Thermal shock, Sintering


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