Ferric Oxide

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Product Code : 04

Product Specification

Ferric Oxide
Grade: KI 350

Ferric Iron Oxide is a unique natural red hematite produced through beneficiation & fine grinding of our exclusive domestic ore body. This product may be used in ferrite, Glass, Oil Drilling

Physical Characteristics

Color is steel or silver gray to black in some forms and red to brown in earthy forms. Sometimes tarnished with irredescent colors when in a hydrated form (called Turgite).
Luster is metallic or dull in earthy and oolitic forms.
Transparency: Crystals are opaque.
Crystal System is trigonal; bar 3 2/m
Crystal Habits include tabular crystals of varying thickness sometimes twinned, micaceous (specular), botryoidal and massive. also earthy or oolitic.
Cleavage is absent however there is a parting on two planes.
Fracture is uneven.
Hardness is 5 - 6
Specific Gravity is 5.3 (slightly above average for metallic minerals)
Streak is blood red to brownish red for earthy forms.

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