In the previous papers, the amount and the crystal-form of impurities on and
in crystals of vacuum and solar salts were reported. In this paper, the authors studied in the same way those of sample-salts from 7 Australian solar salt-fields, which had represented in recent years a large portion of Japanese imported salt.
1. According to the analytical results of the Australian solar salts imported during 1969-1971 made by the branches of the Japan Salt Public Corporation, the impurities were 2.4-4.4% H
2O, 0.05-0.11% Mg
++, 0.05-0.23% Ca
++ and 0.01-0.03% K
+. From the results, the concentration of the total impurities (
in and
on) was estimated at 0.7-2.6 K
2, 10-27Mg and 2-9 SO
4 mol/1000 mol H
2O.
2. The impurities
in crystals of solar salts of Shark Bay, Lake Macleod and Port Hedland were 0.14-1.6% H
2O, 0.006-0.024% K
+, 0.004-0.05% Mg
++ and 0.009-0.026% Ca
++.
3. The concentration of the impurities
in crystals was greater than that of the impurities
on crystals. This was due to the removal of impurity by washing in salt field. And it was estimated that sample of Lake Macleod contained K
2SO
4 or its double salt in crystals.
4. Ratios of the impurities
in crystals to the total impurities were K
+; 30-90%, Mg
++; 10-50%, Ca
++; 20-40%, whose figures were the limit of impurities refined by complete washing.
5. The impurities
in crystals of Lake Macleod and Port Hedland solar salts imported during 1969-1971 were H
2O; 0.93, 1.84%, K
+; 0.012, 0.022%, Mg
++; 0.024, 0.063% and Ca
++; 0.013, 0.011%, respectively. Composition of the impurities
in crystals of Port Hedland was on the concentration process of sea water, while that of Lake Macleod was SO
4-rich shifted from the concentrating process of sea water.
6. Water in the crystals of these salts was contained in the form of cavities. Solar salts containing more cavities, were not transparent. It was estimated that the solar salts of Port Hedland crystallized more advanced degree of concentrating process of sea water than those of Lake Macleod, because they contained more concentrated mother liquid in the crystals.
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