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Why will expand when heated brick

Why will expand when heated brick

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After high temperature after the formation of tridymite and cristobalite and quartz and a small amount of residual glass phase, quartz heating to 220-240 DEG C, in a certain degree of thermal expansion, brick maximum expansion occurs in 100~300 DEG C, 300 expansion before the total amount of expansion is about 70%~75%.
Because the production of raw materials are silica brick, brick with SiO2 content of not less than 95% of silica as raw materials, adding mineralizer and binder, through mixing, molding, drying, sintering and other processes in the system
In the process of SiO2 drying, the four crystalline transformation points of 117, 163, 180~270 and 573 DEG C are found, among which the volume expansion caused by the 180~270 is the largest.

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