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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.
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 ...
Exfoliated vermiculite can be combined with high alumina (also known as calcium aluminate) cements and other aggregates such as expanded shale, clay, and slate or sodium silicate to produce refractory/insulation concretes and mortars. In the early days of their use, these products were batched at or very close to the place of installation.
Calcium silicate hydrate – Main product of the hydration of Portland cement (C-S-H) Cement chemist notation – Abbreviated notation for chemical formulas of common oxides (CCN) Energetically modified cement – Class of cements, mechanically processed to transform reactivity (EMC) Qadad – Old technique used in plastering walls and cisterns
Davemaoite is a high-pressure calcium silicate perovskite (CaSiO 3) mineral with a distinctive cubic crystal structure. It is named after geophysicist Ho-kwang (Dave) Mao, who pioneered in many discoveries in high-pressure geochemistry and geophysics. [2] [3]
Wollastonite is a calcium inosilicate mineral (Ca Si O 3) that may contain small amounts of iron, magnesium, and manganese substituting for calcium. It is usually white. It forms when impure limestone or dolomite is subjected to high temperature and pressure, which sometimes occurs in the presence of silica-bearing fluids as in skarns [7] or in contact with metamorphic rocks.
[5] [6] [7] In the presence of water (during a rainstorm, for instance) unreacted cement particles recently exposed due to cracking hydrate and form a number of products (calcium silicate hydrates (C-S-H), calcite, etc.) that expand and fill in the crack. These products appear as a white ‘scar’ material filling in the crack.
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.