Research Article
Characteristic Investigations on Ethiopian Kaolinite: Effect of Calcination Temperature on Pozzolanic Activity and Specific Surface Area
Table 1
The specific surface area (SSA) of the kaolinite samples at various calcination temperature.
| Calcination temperature (°C) | Vm (cm3·g−1) | BET constant | SSA (m2g−1) |
| Raw kaolinite | 0.001 | 6.098 | 30.545 | 575 | 0.001 | 8.863 | 32.150 | 600 | 0.001 | 9.780 | 34.369 | 625 | 0.001 | 11.431 | 39.230 | 650 | 0.001 | 13.643 | 43.510 | 700 | 0.001 | 14.347 | 47.794 | 800 | 0.001 | 8.972 | 33.360 | 900 | 0.001 | 5.793 | 26.308 | 1000 | 0.001 | 5.650 | 17.807 |
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