Micrograph 190 and full record
- Micrograph no
- 190
- Brief description
- Aluminous Electrical Porcelain
- Keywords
- ceramic , clay, feldspar , grain and bond, insulator, porcelain, quartz, vitreous
- Categories
- Ceramic
- System
- Triaxial (i.e. clay/flux/filler) porcelain
- Composition
- Ball clay 30 , china clay 10, potash feldspar 20, silica sand 20, calcined alumina 20 (wt%)
- Standard codes
- Reaction
- Processing
- Fired at approx 1300ºC to induce vitrification or substantial melting.
- Applications
- Used for electrical insulators.
- Sample preparation
- Polished and etched 3 min in 5% HF solution.
- Technique
- Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
- Length bar
- 10 μm
- Further information
- The microstructure of porcelain is surprisingly complex. Quartz silica grains (Q) are beginning to dissolve and show solution rims (R) of glassy material. The alumina particles are not dissolving at this firing temperature. The relicts of the starting clays contain fine primary mullite in glass (P) while feldspar relicts contain elongated secondary mullite needles.
- Contributor
- Prof W E Lee
- Organisation
- Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield
- Date
- 02/09/02
- Licence for re-use
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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