98 Mix

Description: Low temperature very plastic iron stained clay

Oxide	Analysis	Formula
Al2O3	13.90%	1.29
CaO	0.70%	0.12
Fe2O3	2.80%	0.17
K2O	3.00%	0.30
MgO	1.00%	0.24
Na2O	2.20%	0.34
P2O5	0.10%	0.01
SiO2	69.30%	10.95
TiO2	0.60%	0.07
LOI	5.20%	n/a
Oxide Weight		888.66
Formula Weight		937.40

Notes

An highly plastic red burning fine-grained material from the Elkwater area in southern Alberta. It was used in brick and pipe manufacture by I-XL Industries and in pottery clay bodies by Plainsman Clays. This was a successor to 45R.

Loring Labs analysis 2006 showed 15.6 Al₂O₃, 3.9 Fe₂O₃, 4.9 SO₃, 64.9 SiO₂, 3.4 LOI.

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Typecodes	Clay Other Clays that are not kaolins, ball clays or bentonites. For example, stoneware clays are mixtures of all of the above plus quartz, feldspar, mica and other minerals. There are also many clays that have high plasticity like bentonite but are much different mineralogically.
Materials	Blue Grey Plastic
Materials	IXL 45D

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