Feldspar Powder - 25 Kg Packaging Size

Avail from us a wide range of high quality Feldspar Powder that is the most abundant rock-forming mineral in nature and consists of aluminum silicates with potassium, sodium and calcium or mixture of these. It occurs in different colours like pink, brown, grey etc. our range of Feldspar Powder is priced reasonably.

It is of two types

• Potassium Feldspar
• Sodium Feldspar

Specialty
It is generally marketed after grinding to specified mesh a/c to consumers need. Some firms sell feldspar after pulverizing especially for glass industry and some firms utilizing feldspar as a binding agent in manufacturing of abrasives. Rajasthan was leading producer with a little over half of the total production of feldspar while about one fifth of the production is exported mainly to Singapore, China Republic, Malaysia and Japan.

Uses

• Chiefly utilized in manufacturing of glass pottery. It provides alumina and alkalis. Potash feldspar (orthoclase) tends the melt to clear glass while as soda feldspar (albite) tens the melt to translucent glass. It is used for making high class colourless glass.
• It is used in ceramic industry. It is used as glazes in chinaware. In ceramic bodies or in development of ceramic bodies both potash and soda feldspar are used.
• It is also used in welding electrodes. Feldspar act as flux and protects the molten metal from aerial oxidation.
• Finely ground feldspar quite suitable as a filter in latex and paint both. Feldspar also utilized in manufacturing of vitrified enamels.
• It is useful in production of special electrical porcelain, wind plates and opalescent glass. Small quantity of it also used for enameling artificial teeth.