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Calcium-silicate passive fire protection board being clad around steel structure in order to achieve a fire-resistance rating. Calcium silicate is commonly used as a safe alternative to asbestos for high-temperature insulation materials. Industrial-grade piping and equipment insulation is often fabricated from calcium silicate.
Exfoliated vermiculite is added to a calcium silicate slurry. This is then dewatered by pressing or by using one of the Fourdriner/Magnani/Hatschek processes to form a flat board which is then heat cured under pressure (typically 10–15 bar) for periods of up to 24 hours.
Only calcium silicates contribute to the strength. Tricalcium silicate is responsible for most of the early strength (first 7 days). [3] Dicalcium silicate, which reacts more slowly, only contributes to late strength. Calcium silicate hydrate (also shown as C-S-H) is a result of the reaction between the silicate phases of Portland cement and water.
The major raw material for the clinker-making is usually limestone mixed with a second material containing clay as a source of alumino-silicate. An impure limestone containing clay or silicon dioxide (SiO 2) can be used. The calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) content of these limestones can be as low as 80% by weight. During the calcination process ...
Calcium silicate hydrate – Main product of the hydration of Portland cement; Energetically modified cement – Class of cements, mechanically processed to transform reactivity; Environmental impact of concrete; Lime mortar – Building material; Marl – Lime-rich mud or mudstone which contains variable amounts of clays and silt
Thaumasite is a calcium silicate mineral, containing Si atoms in unusual octahedral configuration, with chemical formula Ca 3 Si(OH) 6 (C O 3)(SO 4)·12H 2 O, also sometimes more simply written as CaSiO 3 ·CaCO 3 ·CaSO 4 ·15H 2 O. It occurs as colorless to white prismatic hexagonal crystals, typically as acicular radiating groups. It also ...
The hydrate is referred to as the calcium silicate hydrate – "C-S-H-" – phase. It grows as a mass of interlocking needles that provide the strength of the hydrated cement system. High alite reactivity is desirable in Portland cement manufacture, and this is achieved by retaining, as far as possible, high temperature polymorphs, in crystals ...
Larnite is a calcium silicate mineral with the formula Ca 2 SiO 4.It is the calcium member of the olivine group of minerals.. It was first described from an occurrence at Scawt Hill, Larne, Northern Ireland in 1929 by Cecil Edgar Tilley and named for the location. [2]