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Vanzan

Description: Xantham Gum

Notes

Vanderbilt Minerals has excellent technical resources and support on the use Vanzan.
They have other products that work in consort with it to not only harden, but control the rheology of slurries.
This material is actually manufactured by Jungbunzlaurer in Pernhofen/Wulzeshofen, AT.

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Oxide	Analysis	Formula	Tolerance

Materials	Xantham Gum
Typecodes	Additives for Ceramic Bodies Materials that are added to bodies to impart physical working properties and usually burn away during firing. Binders enable bodies with very low or zero clay content to have plasticity and dry hardness, they can give powders flow properties during pressing and impart rheological properties to clay slurries. Among potters however, it is common for bodies to have zero additives.
Typecodes	Additives for Ceramic Glazes Materials that are added to glazes to impart physical working properties and usually burn away during firing. In industry all glazes, inks and engobes have additives, they are considered essential to control of cohesion, adhesion, suspension, dry hardness, surface leveling, rheology, speed-of-drying, etc. Among potters, it is common for glazes to have zero additives.
URLs	https://www.vanderbiltminerals.com/resources/Minerals_and_Chemical_for_Ceramics_and_Refractories_web.pdf Vanderbilt Minerals for Ceramics Technical Sheet Includes Vansil, Pyrax, Peerless, Dixie, Veegum, Vanzan, Darvan.

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