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Kentucky #12

Description: Kentucky Ball Clay

Oxide Analysis Formula Tolerance
SiO2 51.60% 3.06
Al2O3 28.60% 1.00
TiO2 1.70% 0.08
Fe2O3 0.90% 0.02
CaO 0.10% 0.01
MgO 0.50% 0.04
K2O 0.50% 0.02
LOI 15.90%n/a
Oxide Weight 299.22
Formula Weight 355.80

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Materials Ball Clay
A fine particled highly plastic secondary clay used mainly to impart plasticity to clay and porcelain bodies and to suspend glaze, slips and engobe slurries.
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.

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Pyrometric Cone Equivalent 32
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