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SaltS

Soluble Salts and data useful to clayers.

A good site on this by one of my students: James Alex Ferrante Soluble Salt Resource

I am not a safety expert, or a chemist.

Introduction

Normally in glazes and surfaces clayers shy away from highly soluble materials. This is because the solubility creates problems including:

• migration of the material into and through porous clay.
• migration into adjacent glazes
• affects on the rheology of the glaze such as flocculation, coagulation, deflocculation and thixotropy.
• some of these materials can be caustic
• increased hazards
• disposal issues
• reactions with other materials

This site is going to try and deal with each of these materials separately and discuss glaze and surface possibilities, and what I think I know about these materials safety, disposal, and reaction issues. In no way should anyone assume that I have any expertise in safety or chemistry and there may be places where the lack of information creates the possibility of a hazard. The material even if correct is certainly not complete.

• AluminumSalts
• BoronCompunds
• SodiumCompounds
• PotassiumCompounds
• IronCompounds
• CopperCompounds
• CobaltCompounds
• ChromeNickelCompounds
• TinCompounds
• CalciumCompounds
• MagnesiumCompounds
• Phosphorus (see trisodium phosphate in SodiumCompounds )