ESEN'S CLINOPTILOLITE
Clinoptilolite is the silicon, aluminum, oxygen composed tetrahedra, wherein the silicon-oxygen tetrahedron and aluminum-oxygen tetrahedron consists the unlimited expanded three-dimensional structure.
In the tetrahedral structure of the clinoptilolite, the negative charge caused by the replacement from silicon ions to aluminum ions will be balanced by sodium ions, potassium ions, calcium ions and magnesium ions, which contributes to the strong adsorption and ion exchange capacity of zeolite.
Clinoptilolite is filled with pores and channels, which is much more complicated than the hive with 1 cubic micrometer having one million pores and channels. If compared clinoptilolite to the hotel, then there are one million rooms in this 1 cubic micrometer super hotel, and this hotel can automatically open the door or shut the door of the rooms according to different sex, height, weight, hobbies of the guests (molecules and ions), which will neither let the fat guest go to the room of the thin guest, nor the tall guest share the same room with the short guest, and makes clinoptilolite the unique role of molecular sieve.
With the unique structure, Clinoptilolite has big internal specific surface area , which makes it very strong adsorption capacity to ions. The channels of clinoptilolite shares the similar fixed size, which can adsorb those with smaller diameter, and exclude those with larger diameter which endows it the proprietary of selective adsorption to ions and molecules.
Esen's Clinoptilolite Technical Data & Properties
Chemical Composition
Al2O3
%12,15
TiO2
%0,10
Fe2O3
%1,14
Na2O
%0,68
K2O
%4,64
SiO2
%70,33
CaO
%2,08
MgO
%0,52
SrO
%0,04
BaO
%0,02
MnO
%0,03
P2O5
%0,04
SO3
%0,02
LOI
%9,40
Mineral Composition
Other Clays
0-5%
Clinoptilolite
85-90%
Opal
5-10%
high
purity

high cation
exchange capacity
strong
absorption
high surface area
Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC)
total cec
1,60meq / g
methane blue cloride method
main exc. cations
N,K,Ca,Na,Fe
Zn,Al,Ba,Pb,Rb,Li,Cu
primary ab. gases
co,co2,so2,so2
NH3,HCHO,AR,O2,N
Hg
Pb
Cd
NH

K
K
Ca
Na
Cu
Cs
Mycotoxin
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Physical Properties
porosity
%40
color
light
cream
particle size
50 mircon-25mm
smell
no
solubility in water
no
pH
5,5-7
bulk density
1-1,2
g/cm3
hardness
2-3 Mohs
water adsorption
42-50 %
surface area
40-45
m2 / gram
water retention
35 - 75 %
melting point
1300 C
appereance
granular or powder
Clinoptilolite Sizes
0-50 mic
0-200 mic
0-400 mic
0-500 mic
0-600 mic
0-800 mic
0-1000 mic 50-200 mic
200-400 mic
200-500 mic
200-600 mic
200-800 mic
200-1000 mic
400-500 mic
400-600 mic
400-800 mic
400-1000 mic
500-600 mic
500-800 mic
500-1000 mic
600-800 mic
600-1000 mic 800-1000 mic
1-2 mm
1-5 mm
1-10 mm
1-25 mm
2-5 mm
2-25 mm
5-10 mm
5-15 mm
5-25 mm
10-15 mm
10-25 mm
15-25 mm