Silica Sand Is used to making plates

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What Is Silica Sand, And What Are Its Usages?
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• If you are thinking silica sand and playground
  sand are the same! 
• You might be mistaken silica sand and regular
  playground sand are not the same things.
• So, let us tell you, what is Silica sand?
• The term silica is used for Silicon dioxide
  (SiO2). The main mineral of Silica is quartz.
  Quartz is a crystalline form of Silica. Silica
  also occurs in non-crystalline form.
• Silica sand is naturally the sand that you can
  get all over a beach, and it also happens to be
  the most commonly used sand. It is generally
  obtained by crushing the sandstone or found
  naturally on beaches or river beds.
• Silica sand suppliers India says the term sand is
  used for natural particles ranging from 2mm to
  0.06 mm. Silica sand is made up of natural quartz
  particles ranging in size from 2mm to 0.06mm.
• Sometimes a lot of people think silica sand is
  just sand, but silica sand is mined, and it is a
  high concentration of quartz. As we all know,
  quartz is another term for Silica, and that's
  what we are using as plates.

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Where Do We Find Silica Sand?

• It can be found in River sand in Malaysia,
  Thailand.
• It can be found in Beach sand in Australia,
  Vietnam.
• It can be seen as sandstones in Saudi Arabia. 

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Uses of Silica sand

• Silica sand is a handy material, and it is very
  inexpensive. 
• Silica sand suppliers India says that it can be
  utilized as clay to use the fine grog. 
• You will not feel it as a coarse grog because the
  particles are much smaller. 
• It can make clay that might be very plasticky and
  not good at vertical pieces and make them
  thinner. 
• It will give you structural integrity if you
  wedge a little silica sand on soft stoneware. 
• It can be used - if you want a little grog in a
  lump of porcelain clay, and it will handle the
  temperature. 
• For many industrial uses, we need silica sand
  with greater than 97 SiO2. 
• Various types of glass can be produced from
  silica sand.
• Cristobalite is produced by heating silica sand.
• Silicon carbide can be produced by silica sand,
  but silicon cannot be produced by silica sand it
  can be produced by lump quartz.
• Silica sand suppliers India produces processed
  silica sand of various qualities by enhancing
  sio2 content and reducing impurities. 

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• They also produce various grades of silica sand
  by particle size distribution.
• Kaolin can be produced as a by-product of silica
  sand mining if it is feasible. 
• Production of silica flour is in line with
  processing silica sand. Many end-users like to
  buy silica flour as they don't want to invest in
  a grinding system.
• Silica sand is the primary component of all
  conventional and specialty glass manufacturing.
• The Color, transparency, and strength of glass
  are entirely related to the purity of silica
  sand.
• A combination of modern technology and
  high-quality Silica is used to formulate
  smartphones' solid and durable glass.
• Drinking water filtration, wastewater processing,
  and purification of healthy water require unique
  grades of silica sand in terms of chemical
  composition, particle size distribution. 
• Due to its inertness, silica sand does not react
  with water during filtration. 
• Industrial sand finds its application in
  unconventional oil and gas production. 
• A silica sand quarry can produce many products.
• Many silica sand products can be produced for
  various markets by screening and producing
  different particle size distributions.
• Each product can be given a name or a number.
  Silica flour is produced by grinding processed
  silica sand. The best method to produce silica
  flour is grinding sand in a ball mill.

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Silica Sand Is Used To Make Plates

• The primary purpose for which we use silica sand
  is to make plates. The plates have a lot of
  surface area that is going to be touching the
  kiln shelf. The reason being is because the thing
  you have to keep in mind is that when the kiln
  shelf and plate's surface is at a peak
  temperature, they both are hot, and the problem
  is how they are going to be calm and depending on
  how big you make your plates or how small all
  that sort of thing. 
• They might cool at different rates and what will
  happen is - you will have a shifting as the two
  pieces of ceramic cool. They might cool at
  different rates and what could happen is - you
  could crack your plates which would be horrible,
  so what you can do is - you can even see a little
  residual, so take some silica sand, put it on a
  kiln shelf, and then spread the silica sand using
  your hands and level it out.
• You will not require a whole lot take only a
  quarter of a scoop. Then set your plate you will
  see many little bitty ball bearings. As the plate
  contracts during the cooling stage of the kiln,
  it can slide microscopically across the silica
  sand versus trying to contract with a hot shelf
  underneath it.

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Silica Sand Is Used To Get Glaze Drips

• The other area where you can use silica sand for
  is - if you know you are going to get a lot of
  glazes drips so what can you do is - take a mug
  or something like that, and you can make the pile
  of silica sand a little higher and a little
  thicker and then set the mug in there. 
• Now what will happen is that the glaze on a runny
  one will drip down and hit the sand, beat up, and
  then stay there. The glazing bead will be there
  with a little bit of sand melted to the bottom.

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Final Words

• Thus, silica sand is nothing but normal sand that
  is found on beaches or rivers. But it has many
  uses industrially and also for other purposes
  like water filtration etc.

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