Product Profile of Ferric Oxide For Oil Drilling
Kings International is offering Ferric Oxide, KI 350 graded. Kings International is ISO 9001:2000 certified and is the manufacturer, exporter and processor of Minerals and Chemicals etc. The Ferric Iron Oxide is a natural red hematite. The Ferric Oxide is constructed through fine grinding and beneficiation of domestic ore body. This Ferric Oxide can be applied in Glass, ferrite and Oil Drilling.
Physical characteristics of this Ferric Oxide are as follows:
- Transparency: Crystals are opaque.
- Crystal System is trigonal; bar 3 2/m
- Luster is metallic or dull in earthy and oolitic forms.
- Streak is blood red to brownish red for earthy forms.
- Cleavage is absent however there is a parting on two planes.
- Specific Gravity is 5.3 [slightly above average for metallic minerals]
- Crystal Habits include tabular crystals of varying thickness sometimes twinned, micaceous [specular], botryoidal and massive.
- Color is steel or silver gray to black in some forms and red to brown in earthy forms. Sometimes tarnished with iridescent colors when in a hydrated form [called Turgite].
