What is the Definition of Natural Abrasives?

Natural abrasive is a hard material found in the earth and is used to shape other materials by grinding or abrading. Natural Abrasives are extremely commonplace and are used very extensively in a wide variety of industrial, domestic, and technological applications. Natural abrasives include corundum, garnet, flint and emery, etc. They occur in natural deposits and can be mined and processed for use with little alteration. If you are looking for natural diamond, please click the link.

Here is brief introduction of some natural abrasives, please click learn more to view complete description.

1. Corundum
Corundum is a crystalline form of aluminum oxide (Al₂O₃) with traces of iron, titanium and chromium. It is a rock-forming mineral. It is one of the naturally clear transparent materials, chromium.  >> Learn More

2. Garnet
Garnets possess similar physical properties and crystal compositions. They are usually used to make coated abrasives. The low price is there advantage. >> Learn More

3. Emery
Emery is a dense, non-porous fine-grained aggregate produced from naturally occurring emery ore that is rich in aluminum oxide.    >>Learn More

4. Flint
Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert.   >> Learn More

5. Pumice
Pumice is a volcanic rock that consists of highly vesicular volcanic glass, which may or may not contain crystals. It is typically light colored.   >> Learn More

6. Silica
The chemical compound silicon dioxide, also known as silica (from the Latin silex), is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula SiO₂. >> Learn More

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