Chromite
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Chromite is an iron chromium oxide with a chemical formula corresponding to FeCr2O4. As it does not contain H2O in its molecular structure, chromite is anhydrous.
The Crystalline Structure of Chromite:
Taken from Earth Materials: Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology
By Cornelis Klein, Anthony Philpotts p.183
Useful properties
Of the many ores that contain chromium, chromite is the only one that has commercial use. Chromium has a wide range of applications in metallurgical and chemical processes. When used in the production of iron, steel and other alloys, chromite will enhance the hardness and the ability to resist the effects of corrosion and oxidation. Due to these properties, it is a key component in the making of stainless steel. In the automotive and heavy industrial sectors, refractory chromite is used in its granular form to make ferrous and non-ferrous castings. The chromite sands derive their high refractoriness from low wettability and a good chemical stability. With a melting point of 2150 ºC and low thermal expansion, the bloating caused by the oxidation of the FeO compounds helps seal the moldings. In addition, this ore’s high density and thermal conductivity promotes the rapid solidification of the castings.
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Of the World's total production of chromite; approximately 94% is smelted into ferrochromium alloys. China is the world leading consumer of chromite with about 70% of the total production. Important stainless steel producers, such as Japan, the U.S., Germany and India, account for the remainder. In the chemical industry, sodium chromate is used to make a variety of chemical products, including pigments in paints, plastics and ceramics. In addition, chromite is an important ...
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...ing the powder-like substance and then roasting it at 1700°–2200°C. Prior to this operation, the zirconium oxide material is subjected to stabilization by melting at 1700°C and adding 5–7 % of CaO or MgO. This converts the main body of the zirconia to the cubic phase. The fired briquettes are then ground in a ball mill until they reach a particle size of less than 10 millimeters. Afterwards, the powder is washed in dilute HC1, to remove impurities and used to form a casting slip. Drying produces shrinkage of 2-4% and following firing, a further contraction of roughly 15% occurs. Fused stabilized zirconia can also be produced using an electric arc process with an end product with more than 90% of the particles in the cubic phase. In this form, zirconium oxide is able to withstand repeated thermal cycling and a maximum temperature of 2400°C under oxidizing conditions.
The degradation reacts fastest at the temperature 200˚C to 300˚C and over a certain time (Yoshimura, 1988). The degradation proceeds on the surface of zirconia and gradually corrodes the interior of zirconia. Transformation proceeds from grain boundary to grain interior. Thus, the thermal stability is subjected to surface grains.
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Though it has had many negative impacts on the environment in the past, mining is a vital industry completely necessary to our economy and lives. Nearly every item we use or encounter in our day to day lives is mined or contains mined products. Without the excavation of such materials things like computers, televisions, large building structures, electricity, and cars would not be possible. Virtually every technological and medical advance uses minded materials, without which millions would suffer. Some examples of minerals in the home include the telephone which is made from as many as 42 different minerals, including aluminum, beryllium, coal, copper, gold, iron, silver, and talc. A television requires over 35 different minerals, and more than 30 minerals are needed to make a single personal computer. Without boron, copper, gold and quartz, your digital alarm clock would not work. Every American uses an average 47,000 pounds of newly mined materials each year, which is higher than all other countries with the exception of Japan, which is a staggering figure representative of our dependence and need for mined minerals. Coal makes up more than half of nation’s electricity, and will continue to be the largest electrical supplier into 2020 & accounting for some 95 percent of the nation's fossil energy reserves – nine of every ten short-tons of coal mined in the United States is used for electricity generation. As the population of the world grows more mineral resources must be exploited through mining in order to support the rising demand for such products. Though it may present a hazard to the environment and those physically located nears the mines, the materials extracted from mines...
Uranium was discovered by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, a German chemist, in the mineral pitchblende (primarily a mix of uranium oxides) in 1789.Klaproth, as well as the rest of the scientific community, believed that the substance he extracted from pitchblende was pure uranium, it was actually uranium dioxide (UO2). After noticing that 'pure' uranium reacted oddly with uranium tetrachloride (UCl4), Radioactivity was first discovered in 1896 when Antoine Henri Becquerel, a French physicist, detected it from a sample of uranium. Today, uranium is obtained from uranium ores such as pitchblende, uraninite , carnotite and autunite as well as from phosphate rock , lignite (brown coal) and monazite sand . Since there is little demand for uranium metal, uranium is usually sold in the form of sodium diuranate , also known as yellow cake, or triuranium octoxide).