SILICON
CARBIDE
ABRASIVE
Silicon Carbide is one of the hardest available abrasives blasting applications. Silicon carbide is capable of high-efficiency profiling with the benefits of high friability and inert chemical properties.
Silicon carbide is a man-made material manufactured by the Acheson furnace technique. Silicon carbide is an extremely hard material (Mohs hardness 9.25), is chemically inert and does not melt. Silicon Carbide has a high thermal conductivity, a low coefficient of thermal expansion, is thermal shock and abrasion resistant and has strength at high temperatures. Silicon carbide’s varied properties make it an effective material in many different applications.
Hardness
(MOHS)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
MICRO GRITS
Chemical Makeup
SiC :
SiO2 :
Si :
Fe :
Al :
C :
97.80%
0.60%
0.80%
0.20%
0.30%
0.30%