To be acquainted with the general remarks of colour adsorption test of moulding sand, the authors have studied the crystal violet adsorption of sieved silica sand and of clay decantated in water. The concentration of colour was measured by the spectro-photoelectric analysis using the light of wave length, 5920 Å.
The results obtained are as follows :
1. The amount of colour adsorption per gram of sample is proportional to the colour concentration in the concentration of less than 0.1 g/
l, and is almost independent of the concentration in the concentration of about 1 g/
l.
2. The amount of colour adsorption per gram of silica sand, and of clay, the particle size of which is larger than 2
μ, is proportional to the total surface area in a gram of specimens for each, but this relation seems to fail in the un-decanted clay, i. e., colour adsorption per unit area decreases.
3. The amount of colour adsorption per unit surface area of silica sand and clay differs several ten folds.
4. In the case of silica sand, the amount of colour adsorption and green tensile strength are both inversely proportional to the mean size of sand grains and this yields the linear relation between themselves. But, it seems to be very difficult to determine the green strength of the moulding sand by colour adsorption test in the case of ordinarily used unsieved green sand, especially in the case of different spiecies of sand.
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