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Palestone
Plainsman Native Clay
Chemistry
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Miscellaneous
- Family: Clay Other
- Region: None
- Mined At: Unspecified
- Raw Mineral: No
- Generic: No
Notes
A pale firing stoneware with good plasticity and suitable for making up the major part of a mix. It develops maturity in the cone 8-11 range and is fine grained and strong. This is material is balanced enough to use by itself.
Fired Temperature, Cone 6 7 8 9 10 11 10R
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Fired Shrinkage: 4.4% 4.6% 4.8% 5.1% 5.4% n/a n/a
Absorption: 3.8% 3.2% 2.6% 2.0% 1.0% n/a n/a
Fired Strength:
(lbs/ square inch) 5800 6200 6700 7100 7100
Sieve Analysis Wet Washed
(Root of 2 series) +35 +48 +65 +100 +150# +200 +325
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0.1% 0.3% 1.9% 6.3% 9.1% 13.6% 21.5%
Texture: Sl. tooth
Plastic Index (1-10): 6
Green Strength (lbs/sqaure inch): 950
Dry shrinkage: 6.0
Dried density: 2.04
PCE: 21.5
Data
- Melting Point (MP): PCE 22
- Melting Point (MP): PCE 22
URLs
- Data Sheet - http://digitalfire.com/plainsman/data/paleston.htm
Suppliers
- Plainsman Clays
Authors
- Tony Hansen (Owner)
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