We are offering Soapstone Powder is also known as talcum powder. Soapstone Powder is a metamorphic hydrated magnesium silicate with a soapy feel and pearly lustre. Its lamellar structure gives excellent opacity to the products. Soapstone Powder exhibits higher stiffness, creep resistance at both ambient and elevated temperature. Soapstone Powder is valued for its extreme softness, smoothness, high lubricating and hiding power and ability to absorb oil and grease. It is chemically inert to acids and alkalis. Soapstone Powder has been found to be excellent filler. It can withstand temperatures up to 1300oC.
Highlights :
- Soapstone Powder has a specific gravity of 2.5“2.8, and is translucent to opaque. Talc is not soluble in water, but it is slightly soluble in dilute mineral acids. Its color ranges from white to grey or green and it has a distinctly greasy feel. Its streak is white
- Soapstone Powder has low electrical and thermal conductivity. Above all, it can be easily powdered, cut, and sawn into any shape and size. These properties in talc are of extreme value for various industrial applications.
Applications :
- Paper : Soapstone Powder is used as a filler to give smoothness, porosity, and opacity to paper. In coating formulations because of its platy ness and high brightness. Additionally it reduces the friction on paper manufacturing machinery thus reducing wear.
- Plastics : Soapstone Powder is as filler owing to its following properties
- Platy in nature, excellent thermal and electrical resistance, excellent blending characteristics with oleo resinous materials. It is used to improve mechanical strength and scratch resistance.
- Ceramics : Soapstone Powder is used for glazing of wall tiles, sanitary ware.
- Paints : Soapstone Powder is used ad filler with varied benefits.
- Enhancement of smoothness, reinforcement of the paint film, controlling gloss of paints, helping in suspending other pigments,
- Rubber industries : Jointing compounds
- Cereal polishing : The structure of Soapstone Powder is composed of Si2o5 sheets with magnesium sandwiched between sheets in octahedral sites.
