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Barium Carbonate has wide range of applications used in ceramics, cements, bricks, rat poison and also in food and drink. Barium Carbonate is also named as Witherite.
Grade: Technical Grade
 Appearance: White amorphous Powder.
Chemical Analysis:
| Purity as BaCO3 |
98.00% Min. |
| Matter insoluble in HCl |
1.40% Max |
| Water Soluble Sulphide as BaS |
0.30% Max |
| Iron as Fe2O3 |
0.04% Max |
| Alkali and other Metal Sulphates as BaSO4 |
2.00% Max |
| Moisture |
0.30% Max |
Packing: 25 / 50 Kg Polythene laminated H.D.P.E. bags and 1 Metric ton jumbo bags
Applications:
Used in Chlor-Alkali Industries during the pre-treatment of Brine that contains large quantity of sulphates and other Metallic Impurities require high degree of purification prior to electrolysis to avoid cell damaging. Barium Carbonate in the treatment of Brine helps to remove sulphates as Insoluble barium sulphate, calcium and magnesium salts as insoluble carbonates.
Used in the Manufacture of other Barium Compounds such as Barium Chloride, Barium Nitrate and Barium Sulphate.
Used as a fluxing ingredient in enamels, glazes and ceramic bodies.
Used in oil-well drilling industry to stabilise the desired properties of baryte suspension used as drilling mud.
Used in the manufacture of photographic paper, to generate Barium Sulphate in the paper that imparts a flat white appearance.
Used in the glass industry, containing various percentages of Barium Oxide is used for several purposes. To obtain Barium Oxide with required percentage, Barium Carbonate is added to the mix.
Used in the ferrous metallurgy, Barium Carbonate is used in some systems for steel carborizing.
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Appearance: White amorphous powder
Chemical Analysis:
| Purity as BaCO3 |
99.00% Min |
| Matter insoluble in HCl |
0.40% Max |
| Water Soluble Sulphide as BaS |
0.40% Max |
| Alkali and other Metal Sulphates as BaSO4 |
0.02% Max |
| Iron as Fe2O3 |
0.02% Max |
| Total Sulphur as SO4 |
0.60% Max |
| Moisture |
0.20% Max |
Packing: 25 / 50 Kg Polythene laminated H.D.P.E. bags
Applications:
Used in the manufacture of Barium Ferrites, hard ferrites formed in different shapes are magnetized to get permanent magnets.
Used extensively in many electronic and electrical gadgets; for example, Sector magnets in two wheelers.
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Appearance: White amorphous powder.
Chemical Analysis:
| Purity as BaCO3 |
98.00% Min. |
| Strontium Carbonate (SrCO3) |
1.50% Max |
| Sodium Carbonate (Na2CO3) |
0.60% Max |
| Calcium & Magnesium Carbonate (CaCO3+MgCO3) |
0.10% Max |
| Sulphur as SO4 |
0.02% Max |
| Iron Oxide (Fe2O3) |
0.004% Max |
| Chromium Oxide (Cr2O3) |
0.002% Max |
| Chlorine |
0.15% Max |
| Moisture (110º C for 1 hour) |
0.20% Max |
Packing: 25 / 50 Kg Polythene laminated H.D.P.E. bags
Applications:
Used as a laboratory reagent.
Used in making complex super conducting materials.
Used in the manufacture of Ceramic capacitors of various micro and pico farads, those are very important components in electronic industries of defence, entertainment and computers.
Used as a constitute in making Television Picture Tubes and other Cathode Ray Tube shells as Barium Oxide cuts off harmful X-ray emission from these tubes and reduces the hazard to the viewers.
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Barium Sulphide is black coarse powder form and also essential precursor for rest of the barium compounds. Barium Sulphide is wide used in surface coating materials as pigment extender and also in glass, rubber industries.  Appearance: Black Coarse Powder.
Chemical Analysis:
| Purity as BaS |
65% & 75% Min |
| Water Soluble as Barium Sulphide |
75% Min |
| Acid Soluble as Barium Silicates |
15% Max |
Packing: 50 Kg Polythene laminated H.D.P.E. bags.
Applications:
Baium Sulphide has wide applications, mainly used in luminous paints.
Used as a flame retardant and acts as a reducing agent.
Used as a major raw material for some important Barium compounds.
Used in hair removing formulations and also in the manufacture of Lithopone
Used in the manufacture of Alum; to reduce the Ferric Sulphate in the Alum solution to Ferrous Sulphate.
Used for generating Hydrogen Sulphide.
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Barium Chloride Dihydrate is a white crystalline powder used in aluminium refining, leather tanning, pigments and colouring  Appearance: White crystalline powder.
Chemical Analysis:
| Purity of Barium Chlroide as (BaCl2 . 2H2O) |
99.0% min |
| Matter insoluble in water |
0.020% max |
| Iron (as Fe) |
30 ppm max |
| pH of aqueous solution |
6 - 8 |
| Water soluble sulphides |
40 ppm max |
| Strontium (Sr) |
0.02% max |
| Sodium (Na) |
0.02% max |
| Calcium (Ca) |
0.02% max |
| Magnesium (Mg) |
0.005% max |
Applications:
Barium chloride is mainly used in the purification of brine solution in caustic chlorine plants.
Used in the manufacture of heat treatment salts and manufacture of pigments.
Used in the manufacture of other barium salts.
Used in the manufacture of Magnesium metal, ceramics, glass and paper products.
Used in fireworks to give a bright green colour and is also used in case hardening of steel.
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Barium Chloride Anhydrous is white Crystalline Powder form that is mainly used in the manufacture of heat treating salts for the hardening of steel. Appearance: White Crystalline Powder.
Chemical Analysis:
| Purity of Barium Chlroide (BaCl2 . 2H2O) |
98.5% min |
| Matter insoluble in water |
0.025% max |
| Iron |
20 ppm max |
| pH of aqueous solution |
6 - 8 |
| Water soluble sulphides |
30 ppm max |
| Sodium |
0.03% max |
| Calcium |
0.03% max |
| Moisture |
0.5% max |
Applications:
Barium chloride is mainly used in the purification of brine solution in caustic chlorine plants.
Used in the manufacture of heat treatment salts and manufacture of pigments.
Used in the manufacture of other barium salts.
Used in the manufacture of Magnesium metal, ceramics, glass and paper products.
Used in fireworks to give bright green colour and is also used in case hardening of steel.
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Chemical Analysis:
| Purity of Ba(No3)2 |
99.0% min |
| Heavy Metals |
4ppm |
| Matter insoluble in water |
0.05% Max |
| Substances not precipitated by Sulphuric Acid |
0.05% Max |
| pH of 5% Solution |
6 – 8 |
| Calcium |
0.05% |
| Chloride |
9ppm |
Packing: 25 / 50 Kg Polythene laminated H.D.P.E. bags
Applications:
Pyrotechnic industry uses the Barium Nitrate for the production of "green fire" and green signal flares.
Used in Primers and detonators.
Used in the manufacture of Barium Peroxide.
Used in the vacuum tube industry and also used in the manufacture other barium compounds.
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 Appearance: White Powder
Chemical Analysis:
| Substances soluble in hydrochloric acid |
0.2 max |
| Water |
0.1 max |
| Nitrates (NO3) |
0.004 max |
| Chlorides (Cl) |
0.02 max |
| Sulphates soluble in water (SO4) |
0.02max |
| Ferrum (Fe) |
0.001max |
| Heavy metals (Pb) |
0.002max |
Applications:
Used as white pigment in paints.
Used as coating on surface of photographic paper to elevate the Image reflection.
Used as fillers in Plastics.
Used as Radio-contrast agent for X-ray imaging.
Used as a reagent for laboratory purpose
Used as coating material in Copper Industry.
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 Appearance:Yellow flakes
Chemical Analysis:
| Total Sulphide as Na2S |
60% Min |
| Sodium Hydrosulphide as NaHS |
2.5% Max |
| Excess alkali as NaOH |
3.00% Max |
| Other reducing compounds as Na2S2O3 |
2.00% Max |
| Iron as Fe2O3 and Aluminium compounds |
0.002% Max |
| Sulphate as Na2S04 |
2.00% Max |
| Chloride as NaCl |
2.00% Max |
| Water insoluble |
0.30% Max |
Packing: 25 / 50 Kg Polythene laminated H.D.P.E. bags.
Applications:
Used as Depilatory reagent and in pharmaceutical Industries.
Used in obtaining the sulphur Black Dyes.
Used in Ore Floatation.
Used in Engraving and also used as analytical reagent.
Used for removing sulphur in viscous Rayon Industry.
Used in Industries to remove heavy metals from waste water.
Used in the manufacture of lubricating oils.
Used in the production of polysulphide elastomers.
Used in Synthetic cooking liquor.
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 Appearance:Reddish Brown flakes
Chemical Analysis:
| Total Sulphide as Na2S |
60% Min |
| Sodium Hydrosulphide as NaHS |
2.5% Max |
| Excess Alkali as NaOH |
2.5% Max |
| Other reducing Compounds as Na2S2O3 |
2.5% Max |
| Iron as Fe2O3 and Aluminium Compounds |
0.9% Max |
| Sulphate as Na2SO4 |
1.5% Max |
| Chloride as NaCl |
1.2% Max |
| Water insolubles |
0.25% Max |
Packing: 25 / 50 Kg Polythene laminated H.D.P.E. bags or 50 Kg M.S.Drums.
Applications:
Used as Depilatory reagent and in pharmaceutical Industries.
Used in obtaining the sulphur Black Dyes.
Used in Ore Floatation.
Used in Engraving and also used as analytical reagent.
Used for removing sulphur in viscous Rayon Industry.
Used in Industries to remove heavy metals from waste water.
Used in the manufacture of lubricating oils.
Used in the production of polysulphide elastomers.
Used in synthetic cooking liquor.
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Minerals
Barytes appear in white and grey colour
Grey Barytes
Grey Barytes are naturally available in grey colour known as Barium Sulphate appeared in powder form or in lumps. As Barytes has large scale of applications because they are chemically inert and mainly used in oil drilling muds. They possess high density, low oil absorption and low refractive index. Barytes is soft crystalline material with different shades of white, grey, red and brown colours.
Properties:
| Specific Gravity |
4.2 - 4.25 |
| Mesh |
200 (99.99%) |
| BaSO4 |
92% |
Applications:
As they consist high specific gravity makes comfortable in using oil drilling.
They are used in Rubbed Industry as fillers
They are also used in the production of glass, ceramics, plastics, and as extenders in paints.
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White Barytes are naturally available and are chemically known as Barium Sulphate appeared in powder or lumps. The properties are structured to have high density, low oil absorption, low abrasiveness, resistant to heat, light fastness, less soluble in water, acids and alkali and are also chemically inert. Barytes appeared in lumps are fine grounded to powder form that has large scale of Industrial applications.
 Properties
Physical Properties
| Specific Gravity |
4.3 to 4.40 |
| Hardness |
3-3.5mohs |
| Whiteness (Purity) |
96% |
| Oil absorption |
9-10 |
| Moisture |
0.5% max |
| Water solubility |
0.5% max |
| PH of 10% slurry |
9.4 |
| Refractive Index |
1.65 |
| Bulk Density |
1.9 |
Chemical Properties
| BaSO4 |
98% |
| Sio2 |
1% |
| Fe2O3 |
0.09% |
| Al2O3 |
0.05% |
| Cao |
0.20% |
| MgO |
0.10% |
| LOI |
0.65% |
Applications:
White Barytes has tremendous applications
Used in Friction Materials are applied for Disc segments, vacuum cleaners, Overhead Cranes.
Used in Paints and Coatings as primers, industrials, high solid powders, anti-corrosive, heat resistant, and architectural.
Used in Ink applications as X-Ray Traceable, Highly build, specific colour.
Used in Copper, Steel and Aluminium manufacturing as mold releasing agent.
Used in Plastics, plasticides as Automotive sound deadening sheet, polyolefin film, Gasket and Carpet Backing.
Used in Rubber Industry.
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Pyrophyllite appears in crystalline structure that composed of aluminium silicate hydroxide. This mineral has many applications and easily machineable. Pyrophyllite posses very good thermal stability and very soft. Pyrophyllite can be seen in White, Green, Brownish green, Yellowish in colour.
 Appearance:White crystalline
Properties:
| Specific Gravity |
2.5-3 |
| Hardness |
1-2 |
| Silica |
56.8% |
| Alumina |
33.37% |
| Ferric oxide |
0.79% |
| Titanium Dioxide |
2.42% |
| Calcium Oxide |
0.29% |
| Magnesium Oxide |
0.24% |
Applications:
Pyrophyllite is used for pencils and tailors chalk.
Used widely in pressure experiments and as gasket material.
Used in high quality grade ceramics and refractories.
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Quartz is the common mineral found and has different varieties with tremendous applications. Most of the quartz is germ stones. Pure Quartz is called rock crystal which is colourless. Varieties of Quartz are Rose Quartz, Citrine, Amethyst, Smoky Quartz, Milky Quartz that are pale pink, brown, dull purple and black in colour. The chemical composition of Quartz is made up of Silicon dioxide.
 Appearance:Crystalline
Properties:
| Specific Gravity |
2.58-2.65 |
| Refractive Index |
1.54-1.56 |
| Hardness |
7 |
Applications:
Quartz has many applications and is used in electronic applications.
Quartz with electronic grade is used in electronic gadgets like computers, mobiles, televisions, radios and electronic games. It is used largely in electronic industry appliances.
Quartz is used in the preparation of optics, sandpaper, glass, liquid filters, cement, motor and ornaments.
Rock crystal is utilised to manufacture lenses and prisms.
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Dolomite is chemically composed of Calcium Magnesium Carbonate and is crystalline in structure which possesses white, grey to pink in colour. Dolomite has many Industrial applications as it is available with distinct cost. Dolomite has large number of uses where mainly used in construction as a replacement for limestone. Due to the chemical composition bearing Magnesia material, dolomite has specific uses. Dolomite Powder is manufactured in the form of nutritional supplement in South California.
Appearance:White Crystalline
Properties:
| Specific Gravity |
2.83-2.87 |
| Refractive Index |
1.678-1.682 |
Applications:
Dolomite is mainly used for refractory and also as flux associated with iron and steel making.
Used for making of glass and in agriculture.
Used for also making Ferro manganese glass, Sea-water Magnesia, Oxides, Hydroxides and Fillers.
Used for Jewellery as it contain the source of magnesium.
Large amount of dolomite is used for float glass production.
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