Chemical analysis for Slater Dust :


Slater Steels owns a steel plant in Sorel-Tracy by the name of Les Forges de Sorel, a maker of special alloyed steels often used by the nuclear industry, makers of tools and surgical instruments.
This material comes from the anti-pollution system of the steel melting department.
Slater Dust has the following general analysis :

SiO2 5.39%
Fe2O3 46.60
CaO 11.23
MgO 3.01
ZnO 31.75
Also small amounts of nickel, chromium,molybdenum,
cadmium, and manganese.

A possible substitution for 1% of this stuffis as follows :

Dolomite .135
Whiting .120
Zinc oxide (calc.) .310
Silica .034
Red Iron Oxide .470
Total 1.069