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Each of these bags is batch-numbered and time-stamped; this is an impressive product-tracking effort by US Silica. It appears the time changes once per minute; their plant thus appears to produce about 600 bags/hour. They stack 60 bags on a pallet, 3000 lbs! The only material I have seen that is stacked more densely is plaster, 80 bags per pallet at 4000 lbs. Pugged clay, by contrast, is stacked at 40 boxes/pallet, giving 1760 lbs.
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Silica
Silica, sold as a white powder, is pure quartz mineral. Quartz is pure SiO2 silicon dioxide. It is the most abundant mineral on earth and most used in ceramics. |
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