The results of viscosity measuerments for Na
2O-SiO
2-Al
2O
3 and PbO-SiO
2-Al
2O
3 systems and the previous data for CaO-SiO
2-Al
2O
3 and MnO-SiO
2-Al
2O
3 systems have been used to evalute the effect of Al
2O
3 on the viscosity of the ternary aluminosilicate MO-SiO
2-Al
2O
3 system in the range of molar ratio Al
2O
3/MO<1. The results obtained are summarized as follows:
(1) In the Na
2O-SiO
2-Al
2O
3 system, the viscosity greatly increased with the substitution of Al
2O
3 for SiO
2 and the value of SiO
2-equivalence of Al
2O
3 calculated from the resutls was about 1.65. In this system, it was considered that Al-ion forms oxygen tetrahedron likewise Si-ion and acts as the aluminosilicate anion.
(2) In the PbO-SiO
2-Al
2O
3 System, the viscosity slightly increased and the rate of increase decreased with decreasing basicity of melts.
(3) In the CaO-SiO
2-Al
2O
3 and MnO-SiO
2-Al
2O
3 systems, the viscosity decreased in the range of molar ratio MO/SiO
2<1 with increasing concentration of Al
2O
3 and the rate of decrease became larger with decreasing basicity of melts. Therefore accurate assessment of the results of these systems could not be made simply by the values of SiO
2-equivalence of Al
2O
3.
(4) Satisfactory results were obtained by arranging the viscosity data by each alminosilicate using a parameter (
nSi+
xnAl)⁄
nO, the value which corresponds to
nSi⁄
nO in the binary silicates, where
nSi,
nAl and
nO are the ion fraction and
x is a constant. The calcurated values of
x were 0.90(Na
2O), 0.74(PbO), 0.69(CaO) and 0.64(MnO), and the relation between their values and ion-oxygen attraction of each oxide was linear.
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