The importance of soil and water for increasing the strength of ceramic products

Abstract

The article presents data reflecting the physicochemical and physical and mechanical properties of the soil used as a raw material for the production of brick products. The authors describe the data reflecting the fundamental difference between electro activated water underlying the proposed technological method, compared with ordinary water. When analysing the results of studying the chemical composition of the soil, the average value of the hydrogen index, which is a soil solution, corresponds to 7.6, and the average amount of acid anions and the average amount of basic ion-cations composition is compared with the average amount of basic ion-cations (6.48: 2.7) turned out to be 2.4 times more. The authors make the conclusion that the soil reserve used for production is acidic.