<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/7370" mdate="2013-05-21 00:00:00"> <author>N. Tugrul and N. Baran Acarali and A. S. Kipcak and E. Moroydor Derun and S. Piskin</author> <title>Temperature Effect on the SolidState Synthesis of Dehydrated Zinc Borates</title> <pages>262 - 266</pages> <year>2013</year> <volume>7</volume> <number>5</number> <journal>International Journal of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/7370</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/77</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>Turkey has 72 of total world boron reserves on the basis of B2O3.Borates that is a refined form of boron minerals have a wide range of applications. Zinc borates can be used as multifunctional synergistic additives. The most important properties are low solubility in water and high dehydration temperature. Zinc borates dehydrate above 290&amp;deg;C and anhydrous zinc borate has thermal resistance about 400&amp;deg;C. Zinc borates can be synthesized using several methods such as hydrothermal and solidstate processes. In this study, the solidstate method was applied between 500 and 800&amp;deg;C using the starting materials of ZnO and H3BO3 with 14 mole ratio. The reaction time was determined as 4 hours after some preliminary experiments. After the synthesis, the crystal structure and the morphology of the products were examined by XRay Diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Raman Spectrometer. As a result the form of ZnB4O7 was synthesized with the highest crystal score at 800&amp;deg;C.</abstract> <index>Open Science Index 77, 2013</index> </article>