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Materials for Ceramics

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Sodium Hexametaphosphate

Alternate Names: SHMP, Calgon

Description: Deflocculant

Formula: (NaPO₃)6

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Oxide	Analysis	Formula	Tolerance

Materials	Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate
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	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_hexametaphosphate Sodium Hexametaphosphate at Wikipedia

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