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5 - B.tech IV CCT - Silicate Structure of Ceramics

The document discusses the silicate structure of ceramics. It describes how silicate structure is composed of silicon and oxygen atoms. There are two types of oxygen atoms in silicate structure: bridging oxygens that bond to two silicon atoms, and non-bridging oxygens that bond to one silicon atom. Silicates are naturally occurring materials that make up clay, feldspar, and mica in the earth's crust. They are widely used in materials like glass, cement, and bricks due to their low cost, availability, and special properties. The basic building block of silicate structure is a silicate tetrahedron with four oxygen atoms surrounding a central silicon atom. Tetrahedra can be arranged in different

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5 - B.tech IV CCT - Silicate Structure of Ceramics

The document discusses the silicate structure of ceramics. It describes how silicate structure is composed of silicon and oxygen atoms. There are two types of oxygen atoms in silicate structure: bridging oxygens that bond to two silicon atoms, and non-bridging oxygens that bond to one silicon atom. Silicates are naturally occurring materials that make up clay, feldspar, and mica in the earth's crust. They are widely used in materials like glass, cement, and bricks due to their low cost, availability, and special properties. The basic building block of silicate structure is a silicate tetrahedron with four oxygen atoms surrounding a central silicon atom. Tetrahedra can be arranged in different

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Silicate Structure of

Ceramics
Lecture 5

Ceramics and Composites Technology


MM451 Course (3 Credits)
B.Tech- MME
4th year- 2nd Sem
2022-2023
Dr. G. Ramya Sree
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
NIT Warangal
Silicate Structure
• Silicate Structure → Silicon + Oxygen atoms

• Bridging oxygens → 1 O + 2 Si
• Non bridging oxygens → 1 O + 1 Si

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Silicate Structure
• Silicate Structure → Silicon + Oxygen atoms

• Bridging oxygens → 1 O + 2 Si
• Non bridging oxygens → 1 O + 1 Si

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Silicate Structure
• Silicate Structure → Silicon + Oxygen atoms

• Natural material in earth crust


• Clay, Feldspar, Mica

• low cost, availability and


special properties
• glass, portland cement and bricks
• Electrical insulative materials

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Silicate Structure
• Silicate Structure → Silicon + Oxygen atoms

• Bridging oxygens → 1 O + 2 Si
• Non bridging oxygens → 1 O + 1 Si

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Silicate Structure
• Silicate Structure → Silicon + Oxygen atoms

• Bridging oxygens → 1 O + 2 Si
• Non bridging oxygens → 1 O + 1 Si

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Silicate Structure
• The basic building block of the silicate is the
silicate ( ) tetrahedron.

• Arrangement of tetrahedron → 4 oxygen atoms


surround a central silicon atom.

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Silicate Structure
• Silicate Structure → Silicon + Oxygen atoms

• Bridging oxygens → 1 O + 2 Si
• Non bridging oxygens → 1 O + 1 Si

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Silicate Structure

• The Si - O bond in the structure is about 50% covalent and 50%


ionic according to calculations from Pauling's equation.
• The radius ratio of Si - O bond is 0.32, which is in the tetrahedral co-
ordination range for stable - ion close packing because of the small
highly charged ion,
strong bonding forces are created within tetrahedrons, and as a
result the units are normally joined corner to corner and rarely
edge to edge.
• With a bond strength of 1, oxygen ions are co-ordinated to only 2 silicon
atoms in silica.
• The tetrahedra can be arranged in co-ordination compounds such
that the corners are shared in several ways. There are 4 general ways)

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Silicate Island structure

• Fe2+, Mg2+ + →
• Olivine silicate.

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Silicate Chain Structure

• 2 corners + 2 corners →

mineral enstatite
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Silicate sheet Structure

• 3 corners + 3 corners →

mineral Kaolinite
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Silicate sheet Structure

• 3 corners + 3 corners →

mineral Kaolinite
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Thank You

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