Elongated mullite crystals obtained from high temperature transformation of sillimanite

Ceramics International

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 245-252

  Tomba, A ^a   Camerucci, M A ^a   Urretavizcaya, G ^a   Cavalieri, A L ^a   Sainz, M A ^b   Caballero, A ^b  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnologia de Materiales   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE CERÁMICA Y VIDRIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DILATOMETERS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FIRING (OF MATERIALS); FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAIN GROWTH; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; LEACHING; NUCLEATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICATES; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ELONGATED CRYSTALS; MULLITE;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0032675992     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-8842(98)00031-5     Document Type: Article

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