Aluminium silicates

Many catalysts have been used but the standard catalysts are generally mixtures of silica and alumina or natural or synthetic aluminium silicate zeolites. 

Portland cement A hydraulic cement made from CaC03 and aluminium silicates. 

Limestone (marble) Sandstone Granite Ice Largely CaCOj Largely SiOj Aluminium silicates H2O jbuilding foundations, construction. Arctic engineering. 

A great variety of aluminium-silicate bearing rocks, plastic when wet, hard when dry. Used in pottery, stoneware, tile, bricks, cements, fillers and abrasives. Kaolin is one type of clay. Some clay deposits may include appreciable amounts of quartz. Commercial grades of clays may contain up to 20% quartz. 

Cleaners containing silicate can cause problems. They should not be used prior to an alkaline process on aluminium, owing to the formation on the surface of alkali-insoluble aluminium silicate. Silicated cleaners can also cause problems before some surface-sensitive zinc phosphating solutions, especially the more modern low-zinc type. 

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Higher resolution aluminium-27 and silicon-29 NMR spectroscopy of glasses and crystals along the join calcium magnesium silicate-calcium aluminium silicate (CaMgSijOj-CaAljSiO,). American Mineralogist, 71, 705-11. 

Although commonly formed from endogenous material, the occurrence of synovial crystals formed following environmental exposure to exogenous agents is indicated by the identification of both aluminium phosphate and aluminium silicate particulates (Netter etal., 1983, 1991). It is noteworthy in this context that arthritic symptoms have been reported following the... 

Control shrinkage after moulding. Any filler will decrease shrinkage most commonly used are silica, clay, calcium carbonate, alumina, talc, powdered metals and lithium aluminium silicate. 

As already mentioned, hydrogen cyanide is formed in simulation experiments using reducing primeval atmospheres. CN was discovered in interstellar space as early as 1940 by optical spectroscopy (Breuer, 1974), and later HCN itself (from measurements using millimetre wavelengths). Only a few years after the Miller-Urey experiments, Kotake et al. (1956) obtained HCN in good yields by reacting methane with ammonia over aluminium-silicate contacts ... 

The great importance of minerals in prebiotic chemical reactions is undisputed. Interactions between mineral surfaces and organic molecules, and their influence on self-organisation processes, have been the subject of much study. New results from Szostak and co-workers show that the formation of vesicles is not limited to one type of mineral, but can involve various types of surfaces. Different minerals were studied in order to find out how particle size, particle shape, composition and charge can influence vesicle formation. Thus, for example, montmorillonite (Na and K10), kaolinite, talc, aluminium silicates, quartz, perlite, pyrite, hydrotalcite and Teflon particles were studied. Vesicle formation was catalysed best by aluminium solicate, followed by hydrotalcite, kaolinite and talcum (Hanczyc et al., 2007). 

This term is applied to a wide variety of materials known chemically as hydrated aluminium silicates, used as inorganic fillers. China clay (kaolin) shows a slight reinforcing effect treated clays show considerably greater reinforcement. 

Calcium silicate, sodium aluminium silicate and treated varieties of aluminium silicate used as reinforcing fillers in rubber compounding. Silicone Rubber... 

Clays are manufactured from naturally occurring hydrated aluminium silicates. The particles of clays are hexagonal shaped platelets. The particle diameter quoted for these materials is not a true diameter, but only an estimate derived from sedimentation analysis. 

The type of clays used by the rubber industry are known to the clay industry as kaolin produced from deposits of a hydrous aluminium silicate, known as kaolinite. 

Calcium silicate produced by precipitation is a fine powder with particle sizes down to 1 uni. It is a reinforcing filler with a reactivity greater than aluminium silicate. It requires the use of additional accelerator as it slightly retards the vulcanisation reaction. 

In a sorption pump, the gas is trapped within the adsorbing material (zeolites or active charcoal) called molecular sieve. Zeolites are porous aluminium silicates which adsorb large amount of gas when cooled to low temperature (usually 77K). The pump is filled with zeolite and put in a bucket containing liquid nitrogen (see Fig. 1.11). 

Urokinase utilized medically is generally purified directly from human urine. It binds to a range of adsorbents, such as silica gel and, especially, kaolin (hydrated aluminium silicate), which can be used initially to concentrate and partially purify the product. It may also be concentrated and partially purified by precipitation using sodium chloride, ammonium sulfate or ethanol as precipi-tants. 

There are several fairly large niobium deposits around the world that belong to the refractory ore type. Some of these deposits can be found in Brazil, Africa and Greenland. Typically, these ores are heavily oxidized and mostly contain iron oxides and aluminium silicates. A typical example of such a deposit is the Mrima Hill deposit found in southeast Kenya, which was a case study in which new technology was examined. 

This may be the reason why silicon is essential, namely that it keeps aluminium in a non-toxic form as aluminium silicate. While silicon is required as a trace element in most animals, in plants, particularly grasses, and in many unicellular organisms, such as diatoms4, it is a major structural element. The importance of phosphorus and sulfur is obvious, the latter often associated with iron in an important family of proteins that contains iron-sulfur clusters. 

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