If you work on rubber products, you may be familiar with white carbon black. Because it’s a necessary material in the production. However, most of the people don’t know what is white carbon black, even never heard it. Although some people have heard, they don’t know too much about it. Today, OrientFlex introduces you something about it.
Exist of white carbon black
White carbon black widely exists in the nature, mainly in silica, quartz, diatom and sand. While the main form is crystal and amorphous form. Kieselguhr is an amorphous white carbon black. The remains of diatom and other microorganisms sediment and then become a light and soft solid. It has large surface area and strong adsorption.
Physical and chemical features
White carbon black is a hard and colorless substance with brittleness. It’s hard to melt because the melt point is 1710℃. Besides, it can’t dissolve in water.
Because of the stable silica-oxygen chain, the chemical status is very steady. Besides, white carbon black is a acid oxide, thus it has some features of acid oxide. For example, it can react with alkali in high temperature. White white carbon black has great acid resistance and will not react with it. But it can be corroded. Therefore, people use it to carve glasses.
Application
White carbon black is a powerful material to prevent dirty. However, it will cause serious effect to the environment. If exists in the environment for long term, it will have toxic function. Because the huge damage to water and animal, it’s forbidden to use.
However, the white carbon black is mostly used for rubber products, such as rubber hose. The white carbon black is to improve the transparency. OrientFlex is a professional hose manufacturer integrating R&D, produce and export. If you have any questions about white carbon black or the hose, please contact us.