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The green color of greensand is due to variable amounts of the mineral glauconite, an iron potassium silicate with very low weathering resistance; as a result, greensand tends to be weak and friable. It is a common ingredient as a source of potassium in organic gardening and farming fertilisers .
Green sand (casting), slightly damp sand, used in sand casting of metals; Olivine sand, which can form green sand beaches; Project Greensand aims to store captured CO 2 on the ocean floor of Denmark's North Sea region
Green sand is an aggregate of sand, bentonite clay, pulverized coal and water. Its principal use is in making molds for metal casting . The largest portion of the aggregate is a sand, usually silica or sometimes olivine . [ 1 ]
Small amounts of manganese Mn 2+, magnesium Mg 2+, and calcium Ca 2+ may substitute for iron Fe 2+ in its structure. [5] Pure vivianite is colorless, but the mineral oxidizes very easily, changing the color, and it is usually found as deep blue to deep bluish green prismatic to flattened crystals.
Green sand casting for non-ferrous metals does not use coal additives, since the CO created does not prevent oxidation. Green sand for aluminum typically uses olivine sand (a mixture of the minerals forsterite and fayalite, which is made by crushing dunite rock). The choice of sand has a lot to do with the temperature at which the metal is poured.
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Glauconite has long been used in Europe as a green pigment for artistic oil paint under the name green earth. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] One example is its use in Russian " icon paintings", another widespread use was for underpainting of human flesh in medieval painting. [ 12 ]
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