Quartz plays an important role in our life!

Quartz glass crucible Quartz sand is an important industrial mineral raw material, widely used in glass, casting, ceramics and refractory materials, metallurgy, construction, chemical industry, plastics, rubber, abrasives and other industries.

Then let the glass laser cutting manufacturer, Donghai Alpha Products Co., Ltd. introduce you to some application fields and uses of quartz.

(1) Quartz can be used to make glass

The main raw materials of flat glass, float glass, glass products (glass jars, glass bottles, glass tubes, etc.), optical glass, glass fiber, glass instruments, conductive glass, glass cloth and special radiation-proof glass.

(2) Ceramics and refractories

Porcelain blanks and glazes, raw materials for high silica bricks, ordinary silica bricks and silicon carbide for kilns.

(3) Quartz can be used in metallurgy

Raw materials or additives and fluxes for silicon metal, ferrosilicon alloy and silicon aluminum alloy, etc.

(4) Quartz can be used in construction

Concrete, cementitious materials, road construction materials, artificial marble, cement physical performance test materials (ie cement standard sand), etc.

(5) Quartz can be used in chemical industry

Raw materials for silicon compounds and water glass, fillers for sulfuric acid towers, and amorphous silica powder.

(6) Quartz can be used in machinery

The main raw material of foundry sand, abrasive materials (sandblasting, hard abrasive paper, sandpaper, emery cloth, etc.).

(7) Quartz can be used in electronics.

High-purity metal silicon, optical fiber for communication, etc.

Quartz is actually a general term for crystals, because the minerals that can be used as crystals are all produced by cutting and grinding quartz, and they all have the same characteristics of component identification. The difference is that crystals can be used as gem-grade materials, and after quartz is dyed, Most of them can only be used as imitations of jade, such as Xiuyu, Dushan jade, etc.