Applications
: As a filler in rubber, plastic, linoleum
paper in paper coating, canvas white, shoe dressings, white ware,
sealant, making of cement, as a flux in smelting metallic ores or
alloys, as a fertilizer glass manufacturing, ceramics-glazes and
enamels, cattle feed etc.
Commodity
Calcite
Chemical
Composition
Natural
Calcium Carbonate
Chemical
Formula
CaCO3
Hardness
3
Colour
White
Specifications
Contents
Super
Premium
Excel
Calcium
Oxide CaO
56.47
56.19
55.85
Calcium
Ca
40.36
40.16
39.91
Magnesium
Oxide MgO
Traces
Traces
Traces
Silica
SiO2
00.30
00.52
01.38
Aluminium
Al2O3
00.05
00.05
00.08
Ferric
Oxide Fe2O3
00.04
00.04
00.06
Titanium
Dioxide TiO2
Nil
Nil
Nil
Maganous
Oxide MnO
Nil
Nil
Nil
Pottasium
Oxide K2O
00.006
00.006
00.006
Phosphorous
Pentoxite P2O5
00.007
00.009
00.011
Phosphorous
P
00.003
00.004
00.005
SulphurTrioxide
So3
00.012
00.02
00.03
Loss
on Ignition L.O.I.
43.38
43.12
42.44
Loss
on Drying @ 105.C
00.08
00.10
00.10
Chloride
Cl
00.02
00.02
00.02
Sulphates
SO4
00.017
00.021
00.04
Alkali
Water Solution
00.02
00.02
00.12
Heavy
Metals Pb
Nil
Nil
Nil
Arsenic
As
Nil
Nil
Nil
Carbon-di-oxide
CO2
43.30
43.02
42.34
Insoluble
in water & alcohol
99.90
99.96
99.91
Aluminium,
Iron Phosphate and matter insoluble in hydrochloric acid