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Chemically properties


Ceramic materials offer something special in their chemical reactivity :

  • chemical inert
  • resistant to corrosion
  • catalystically effective
  • biologically compatable

Further, more detailed information to this in the Breviary

  Oxide Carbide Nitride Silicate
AI2O3 ZrO2 SSIC SISIC SSN HPSN Earthen-
ware
Hard porcelain Steatite
Hydrochloric acid
HCl (diluted)
+
(*)
- + +
(100°C)
+
(*)
  +
(*)
+
(*)
+
(*)
Hydrochloric acid
HCl (concentrated)
+
(*)
0 +
(*)
+ - + +
(*)
+
(*)
+
(*)
Nitric acid
HNO2 (diluted)
+   +
(*)
+
(*)
+
(*)
+ +
(*)
+
(*)
+
(*)
Nitric acid
HNO2 (concentrated)
+
(*)
0 +
(*)
+
(*)
    + + +
Sulphuric acid
H2SO3 (diluted)
+     +
(100°C)
+   +
(*)
+
(*)
+
(*)
Sulphuric acid
H2SO3 (concentrated)
+
(*)
-
(*)
        +
(*)
+
(*)
+
(*)
Phosphoric acid
H3PO4
+
(20 °C)
0
(*)
-
(250°C)
  0 + 80 %
H3PO4
+
(*)
80 %
H3PO4
+
(*)
80 %
H3PO4
+
(*)
hydrofluoric acid
HF
- -
(20 °C)
+   - - - - -
Caustic soda
NaOH-solution
0
(*)
  + 0
(100°C)
+ + -
(*)
-
(*)
-
(*)
Caustic potash
KOH-solution
+
(*)
+
(*)
+
(*)
0
(80°C)
+
(*)
+      
Natrium chloride
NaCl
+
(*)
    +
(900°C
in der Luft)
    +
(*)
+
(*)
+
(*)
Calium chloride
KCl
+     +
(900°C
in der Luft)
    +    
Copper chloride
CuCl2
(*)           + + +
Iron chloride
FeCl3
                 
          + resistant (up to given temperature)   (*) boiling
          - corrosion attack (at given temperature)   o a reaction takes place
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