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DEFLOCCULANTS

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• Family: None
• Region: None
• Mined At: Unspecified
• Raw Mineral: Yes
• Generic: No

Notes

(Richard Willis)

Deflocculants are chemical salts, usually in compounds, added to clay and glaze recipe slurries to disperse particles without significantly reducing their suspension and to increase fluidity without significantly altering the liquid-to-solid ratio, thus avoiding the need to add water when increasing the total water is not desired. Not to be equated outright with “thinning” agents, since, for example, water itself is a thinning agent.
A well known calcium deflocculant is “Calgon” (re- calcium gone). Sodium-based agents are probably the most popular, particularly those of sodium carbonates. Others include tetrasodium pyrophosphate, sodium tripolyphosphate, and sodium nitrite. see flocculant

Authors

• Richard Willis (Owner)

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