Zinc borate is an inorganic compound, a borate of zinc. It’s a white crystalline or amorphous powder insoluble in water. Its toxicity is low. Its melting level is 980 °C.
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Variants[edit]
A number of variants of zinc borate exist, differing by the zinc/boron ratio and the water content material:[1]
The hydrated variants lose water between 290–415 °C.
Makes use of[edit]
Zinc borate is primarily used as a flame retardant in plastics and cellulose fibers, paper, rubbers and textiles. Additionally it is utilized in paints, adhesives, and pigments. As a flame retardant, it might probably exchange antimony(III) oxide as a synergist in each halogen-based and halogen-free programs.[2] It’s an anti-dripping and char-promoting agent, and suppresses the afterglow. In electrical insulator plastics it suppresses arcing and monitoring.
In halogen-containing programs, zinc borate is used along with antimony trioxide and alumina trihydrate. It catalyzes formation of char and creates a protecting layer of glass. Zinc catalyzes the discharge of halogens by forming zinc halides and zinc oxyhalides.
In halogen-free system, zinc borate can be utilized along with alumina trihydrate, magnesium hydroxide, purple phosphorus, or ammonium polyphosphate. Throughout burning the plastics, a porous borate ceramics is fashioned that protects the underlying layers. In presence of silica, borosilicate glass could be fashioned at plastic burning temperatures.[3]
Zinc borate is utilized in polyvinyl chloride, polyolefins, polyamides, epoxy resins, polyesters, thermoplastic elastomers, rubbers, and so forth. Additionally it is utilized in some intumescent programs.[4]
Zinc borate has synergistic impact with zinc phosphate or barium borate as a corrosion inhibitor pigment.
Zinc borate acts as a broad-spectrum fungicide in plastics and wooden merchandise.[5]
Zinc borate can be utilized as a flux in some ceramics. In electrical insulators it improves the ceramics properties.
Nanopowder zinc borate can be utilized for the purposes above, and likewise for bettering the frictional properties of lubricating oils.[6]
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