Abstract

The dimension stone industry produces large amount of residue. An alternative to reduce this environmental liability is to apply as glaze in coating ceramic. This research is about the wettability between glaze and red ceramic, applying the sessile drop method. The waste and additives were mixed, pressed, and put over red ceramic plate previously sintered. The system was heated until the melting point of the glaze and the contact angle decreasing was measured in function of the temperature, and in a function of the time at 750 °C and 800 °C. The minimum contact angle value was near 6 ° at 994 °C in the testing changing the temperature, and presents 19 ° and 10 °, respectively, at 750 °C and 800 °C, when the time was varied. The longitudinal section of the samples was analyzed using optical microscopy, showing physical wettability in all testing. This glaze presents good wettability on red ceramic with potential as coating ceramic.

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