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Ivory Fat Ball Clay

Description: Legacy ball clay from Moore and Munger, UK

Oxide	Analysis	Formula
SiO2	54.90%	3.02
Al2O3	30.90%	1.00
Fe2O3	0.90%	0.02
TiO2	1.40%	0.06
CaO	0.40%	0.02
MgO	0.41%	0.03
K2O	0.20%	0.01
Na2O	2.50%	0.13
LOI	8.90%	n/a
Oxide Weight		302.40
Formula Weight		331.95

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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.
Typecodes	Ball Clay Ball clays are abundant and very plastic and are used in all types of plastic forming bodies. They are not as white-burning or refractory as kaolins but lower in iron and fluxes than bentonites.

Data

Drying Shrinkage	4.5%
Firing Shrinkage	10% at cone 9
Dry M.O.R. (50% Silica)	330 psi

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