Product Profile of Talc - Magnesium Silicate

Talc - Magnesium Silicate available up to 10 micron size with brightness 78% to 98%. Talc is an important industrial mineral. Its resistance to heat, electricity and acids make it an ideal surface for lab counter tops and electrical switchboards. It is also an important filler material for paints, rubber and insecticides. Talc is popularly known as the primary ingredient in talcum powder. Talc - Magnesium Silicate is offered by Mewar Microns.

Mewar Microns is the manufacturer and exporter of high quality natural minerals like Calcite, Dolomite, Barytes, China clay, Quartz, etc. Mineral specimens of Talc - Magnesium Silicate are not very common as it does not form very large crystals. However, it often replaces other minerals on an atom by atom basis and forms what are called pseudomorphs [false shape]. The Talc takes the form of the mineral it replaces. A specimen of what looks like milky quartz when it not only has a soapy feel but can be scratched by a fingernail.

Talc - Magnesium Silicate finds its application in the areas like:

• As a filler in paper, rubber, foam and plastics.

• In talcum and face powders, ointments and pastes.

• As an extender in paints.

• For making soft pencils, for making glass, fabrics and metals.

• In textile industry as an absorbing agent for bleaching cotton, removing grease spots etc.

• To make high voltage insulators, glazes, acid and alkali proof vessels rain water piping etc.

• In anti corrosion pigments.

• As nucleating agent in production of polymers.