Abrasive chemical industry
Abrasives are natural or artificial substances of great hardness used in mechanical machining. Their use has been known since antiquity, as evidenced by the emery fields of the Greek island of Naxos and the pumice deposits of the Aeolian Islands. The characteristics that distinguish an abrasive are high hardness, very low fragility and crystalline nature. They have countless uses for innumerable materials, depending on which media changes, some applications are: sharpening, cutting, abrasive soaps, abrasive pastes, etc.,
The most popular natural abrasives are quartz, corundum, silica, pumice, sandstone, diamond, emery, fossil flour, garnet. Among the artificial ones are the oxides of aluminum, chromium, iron, boron nitrate, silicon carbide, glass, and boron carbide.
The use of abrasives can be done in the form of powder; Applied to sheets of paper or cloth; Or sintered to form abrasive grains or stones.
Abrasive production line