ASTM C322-82(1997)e1

Standard Practice for Sampling Ceramic Whiteware Clays

SCOPE
1.1 This practice covers procedures for sampling bulk and bagged shipments of ceramic whiteware clays.

General Information

• Status: Historical
• Publication Date: 31-Dec-1996
• ICS: 81.060.01 - Ceramics in general
• Technical Committee: C21 - Ceramic Whitewares and Related Products
• Drafting Committee: C21.04 - Raw Materials

Relations

• Replaced By: ASTM C322-03 - Standard Practice for Sampling Ceramic Whiteware Clays
• Effective Date: 01-Oct-2003
• Referred By: ASTM C325-07(2022) - Standard Guide for Wet Sieve Analysis of Ceramic Whiteware Clays
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1997
• Referred By: ASTM C323-56(2016) - Standard Test Methods for Chemical Analysis of Ceramic Whiteware Clays (Withdrawn 2024)
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1997
• Referred By: ASTM C324-01(2022)e1 - Standard Test Method for Free Moisture in Ceramic Whiteware Clays
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1997
• Referred By: ASTM E2651-19 - Standard Guide for Powder Particle Size Analysis
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1997
• Referred By: ASTM E2834-12(2022) - Standard Guide for Measurement of Particle Size Distribution of Nanomaterials in Suspension by Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA)
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1997
• Referred By: ASTM C371-09(2018) - Standard Test Method for Wire-Cloth Sieve Analysis of Nonplastic Ceramic Powders
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1997
• Referred By: ASTM C689-09(2019) - Standard Test Method for Modulus of Rupture of Unfired Clays
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1997

Standards Content (Sample)

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e1
Designation: C 322 – 82 (Reapproved 1997)
Standard Practice for
Sampling Ceramic Whiteware Clays
This standard is issued under the fixed designation C 322; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
e NOTE—Section 3 was added editorially in October 1997.
1. Scope provide a 10-lb laboratory sample.
2.2 Where a bulk shipment consists of shredded or coarsely
1.1 This practice covers procedures for sampling bulk and
ground clay, sampling shall be done at 20 points for a 30-ton
bagged shipments of ceramic whiteware clays.
(27-Mg) unit; the samples may be taken with a shovel, or with
2. Sampling a grain sampler, if the form of the clay permits. The samples so
taken shall then be mixed thoroughly, and quartered or riffled
2.1 Where a bulk shipment consists of lumps, a number of
to form a 10-lb (4.5–kg) (or proportionately larger) laboratory
pieces shall be picked from different parts of the car, so that the
sample.
final sample will represent an average of all parts of the
2.3 For bagged lots of ground or air-floated clay, the number
shipment from top to bottom. For a 30-ton (27-Mg) unit, no
of samples taken shall depend on the number of units in a
less than 20 samples of approximately 10 lb (4.5 kg) each shall
shipment. A grain-sampler or similar sampling instrument shall
be taken from different parts of the car. This may be done by
be used to take samples which then shall be combined, mixed,
digging holes at equally spaced intervals in the loaded car, or
and quartered or riffled to obtain a 10-lb (4.5-kg) laboratory
by removal during loading or unloading, at spaced intervals.
sample. Where a shipment consists of 100 bags or less, the
The lumps shall then be broken to pieces no larger than 4 in.
number of bags sampled at random shall be not less than 5 and
(102 mm), in the largest dimension, and t
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