Product Profile of Slate Powder

Famous Minerals & Chemicals Private Limited manufactures Slate Powder. Famous Minerals & Chemicals Private Limited offers minerals, processed minerals and synthetic minerals, etc. Used in different types of industries. The Slate Powder is in the form of Aluminium silicate and iron silicate. It contains a small quantity of Calcium, Magnesium and Titanium in oxide form. Slate Powder has a typical greyish black colour. It has Blackboard like properties. Slate is carved and sliced from solid state rocks. Slate cake is powder red and pulverised and then used as Slate Powder. The Slate Powder is used as filler in variety of industries such as paints, rubber, cable, footwear, foundry, etc.

Physical Properties of Slate Powder are:

• Appearance : Greyish Black powder.

• Bulk density : 0.69

• Sp. Gravity : 2.75 to 2.85

• Oil absorption : 20 - 25%

• Moisture : 0.1%

• Loss on ignition : max. 5.5%

• PH of 10% sol. : 8.5 to 9.0.

• Water sol. Matter : max 1%

• Test for Barium : -ve [Negative]