Pegmatite

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Materials	Feldspar In ceramics, feldspars are used in glazes and clay bodies. They vitrify stonewares and porcelains. They supply KNaO flux to glazes to help them melt.
Typecodes	Feldspar The most common source of fluxes for high and medium temperature glazes and bodies.
Hazards	Feldspar Feldspars are abundant and varied in nature. They contain small amounts of quartz (while nepheline syenite does not).
Minerals	Pegmatite A granite rock of quartz, mica and feldspar.
Minerals	Quartz Quartz is the most abundant mineral on earth, it is the main crystalline mineral form of silica (SiO
Minerals	Mica See Muscovite.
Minerals	K-Feldspar Most common feldspars contain both sodium and potassium. The term K-Feldspar designates one where th

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