Colour: white, but often dyed yellow, green, brown and other colors due to impurities.
Underside of cleavage completely.
Holmes Hardness: 1-2
Specific Gravity: 2.6 to 2.9.
With potassium-rich, high alumina, low iron, and smooth, bright, delicate, heat, excellent chemical and physical properties
Application:
used in potash production, and advanced coatings and fillers, ceramic accessories, cosmetics, soil modifier, poultry feed additives and ingredients of high-rise building’s skeleton and cement ingredients, the nuclear industry’s pollution purification and environmental protection. Which trace elements can be made to the outer coating of the space shuttle. In particular, the three major sectors of the paper, cosmetics, ceramics, illite has a great value.