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Thermal expansion as a method for checking the composition of ceramic clays and of studying mineralogical changes during firing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

D. A. Holdridge*
Affiliation:
British Ceramic Research Association, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent
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Abstract

Thermal expansion measurements on unfired ceramic clays have provided a useful rapid method of estimating their quartz contents. Reversible thermal expansion measurements on the fired clay reveal changes in composition with firing, notably the development of cristobalite and of the glassy phase.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1959

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