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Influence of Compositions on Phase Separation in R2O-CaO-ZnO-Al2O3-SiO2 System

SUN Hong-Wei1; CHEN Xian-Qiu2; GAO Li-Ming3; WANG Shu-Ling1; FENG Jian-Qiu1   

  1. 1.The College of Civil & Architectural Engineering; Zengzhou University; Henan Zengzhou 450052; China; 2. Shanghai Institute of Ceramics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai 200050, China; Northwest Institute of Light Industry, Xianyang 712081, China

  • Received:2000-05-15 Revised:2000-06-05 Published:2001-05-20 Online:2001-05-20

Abstract: The influence of compositions on phase separation in R2O-CaO-ZnO-Al2O3-SiO2 system was investigated in detail by OM and TEM.
The studied results show that a wide miscibility gap is in K2O-CaO-ZnO-Al2O3-SiO2 system and it will down to the region
of the concentrations of low Al2O3 and high SiO2 with the equimolecular substitution of K2O by Na2O, and the higher the content of ZnO is, the larger the phase separation region is. It is
evident that in the region of low Al2O3 concentration the tendency towards phase separation increases with increasing Al2O3 content
and when Al2O3 content is above 6.20 mol% this tendency decreases with increasing Al2O3 content.

Key words: silicate glass, phase separation

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