Chrysotile asbestos giving Mg
3Si
2O
5 (OH)
4 as general formula is only one natural resources of fibrous mineral. However, asbestos is attracted recently to be harmful to human body. A fiber of asbestos consists of tubular structure built up by repeating the outer Mg (OH)
2 layer and the inner Si
2O
5 layer.
In an attempt to improve asbestos for harmless, studies were made of behaviour of Mg
2+ ion in dissolving of asbestos with acid and surface improvement process to form hydroxyapatite on the surface after dissolving the surface Mg
2+ ions. The characteristics of both original asbestos and improved asbestos were determined by means of X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, Infrared spectroscopy, measurement of specific surface area and chemical analysis.The surface layers of Mg (OH)
2 were dissolved with dilute acid of HCl or H
3PO
4 (0.01-0.50 N) to keep the surface layered structure of Si
2O
5 without destroying even after dissolving. Any clear change was not found from an appearance of the asbestos after dissolving when the dissolved Mg
2+ is a small amount as 1-10% indissolved-M
2+/total-M
2+.Especially, when an amount of the dissolved Mg
2+ was about 2% to be equivalent to the amount of the monolayer of Mg
2+ on the surface of asbestos, it was confirmed that the original fibrous form was well kept without seening any destruction.
When the acid-treated asbestos as the above was placed in a solution containing Ca
2+, Ca
2+ ions adsorbed easily from the solution to surface sites of the asbestos after removing Mg
2+ ions. This is thinkable as a kind of exchange reaction. However, the exchanged amount of Ca
2+decreased with increasing the amount of dissolved Mg
2+ and the exchange ratio of Ca
2+ was about 20% in the asbestos removed 10% Mg
2+. When the asbestos exchanged with Ca
2+ as the above was placed in Na
2HPO
4 solution, the surface of the asbestos was coated with hydroxyapatite to combine with the surface Ca
2+ strongly.
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