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Plainsman Fireclay

Plainsman Fireclay

A buff firing, medium plasticity, slightly toothed fireclay. Ideally suited as a refractory agent to reduce body maturity, yet not adversely affect its working and drying properties, or overly darken its fired color.

This material is good substitute for the popular but discontinued AP Green Missouri Fireclay. It fires to a similar color and is a bit more refractory.

Fireclays are often inexpensive and thus coarsely (or even erratically ground). They are implicated in lime-popping. Fireclay should be ground to at least 30 mesh to eliminate this problem.

Out Bound Links

• (URLs) PFC Data Sheet
  http://plainsmanclays.com/data/PFC.HTM
• (Materials - Unspecified) Cedar Heights Fireclay - Fire Clay
• (Materials - Unspecified) Hawthorne Bond - Missouri Fire Clay

  Hawthorne Fireclay, Hawthorn, HAWTHORN 35m

• (Materials - Unspecified) Imco 400 Fireclay - Fireclay
• (Materials - Parent) Fireclay

  Fire Clay

• (Typecodes) 1: CLO - Clay Other
• (Typecodes - Type) 1: FRC - Fireclay

In Bound Links

• (Articles - Unspecified)

  Duplicating AP Green Fireclay

  Few people actually understood what AP Green fireclay really was (it is no longer available). By car...

• (Materials - Unspecified) APG Missouri Fireclay - Buff Burning Plastic Fireclay

  AP Green, A.P., A. P., APG Fire, APGFC

• (Typecodes - Unspecified) 1: FRC - Fireclay

XML for Import into INSIGHT

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<oxides>
<oxide symbol="MgO" name="Magnesium Oxide, Magnesia" status="" percent="0.200" tolerance=""/>
<oxide symbol="K2O" name="Potassium Oxide" status="" percent="2.100" tolerance=""/>
<oxide symbol="Na2O" name="Sodium Oxide, Soda" status="" percent="1.000" tolerance=""/>
<oxide symbol="P2O5" name="Phosphorus Pentoxide" status="" percent="0.020" tolerance=""/>
<oxide symbol="TiO2" name="Titanium Dioxide, Titania" status="" percent="0.700" tolerance=""/>
<oxide symbol="Al2O3" name="Aluminum Oxide, Alumina" status="" percent="27.000" tolerance=""/>
<oxide symbol="SiO2" name="Silicon Dioxide, Silica" status="" percent="58.100" tolerance=""/>
<oxide symbol="Fe2O3" name="Iron Oxide, Ferric Oxide" status="" percent="2.000" tolerance=""/>
<oxide symbol="MnO" name="Manganous Oxide" status="" percent="0.010" tolerance=""/>
</oxides>
<volatiles>
<volatile symbol="LOI" name="Loss on Ignition" percent="8.700" tolerance=""/>
</volatiles>
</material>

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