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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1994
Asahi Glass Company Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A ceramics binder mixture having from 4.3 to 7 parts by weight, as calculated as silica, of a silica-sol mixed to 100 parts by weight of a mixture comprising (1) from 25 to 60 parts by weight of cordierite aggregates prepared by melting and vitrifying a mixture of an approximate cordierite composition (2MgO.2Al.sub.2 O.sub.3.5%SiO.sub.2), followed by crystallization to cordierite, and having a particle size of from 0.1 to 1 mm, (2) from 6 to 17 parts by weight of a fine powder of silica having particle sizes of from 0.1 to 10 .mu.m, and (3) the rest being a powder composed mostly of cordierite particles and having particle sizes smaller than 0.1 mm, whereby the Na.sub.2 O content in the binder mixture excluding moisture is not higher than 0.3 wt %.