Specification for Gypsum Pottery Plaster (Withdrawn 1948)

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ASTM C60-40 - Specification for Gypsum Pottery Plaster (Withdrawn 1948)
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AI>PROV.Bll AS
AMERICAN STANDARD
JJY THB A'MURICAN STANDARDS ASSOCIATION
ASA NO.: A49.5-1910
Standard Spec~ficat-ions for
GYPSUM POTTERY PLASTER'
A.S.T.M. Designation: C 60 - 40
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'AoOl'T.ED 1929; REVISED, 1930, 1940.
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This Stand(\rd of the American Socicly for Testing Materinls is issued under
the fixed designation c 60; the final numl>cr indicates the yec.r or original
ndoption as standard or, in the C(\SC of revision, the ye(\r of last revision.
Scope as lo be representative of the shipment.
Samples shall be taken from both the
1. These specifications cover gypsum
surface and the center of each package
pottery plaster, a material consisting
so selccled. The material so obtained
essentially of calcined gypsum for use in
shall be thoroughly mixed and reduced
making potlery molds.
by quartering to provide not less than
Composition
a 15-lb. sample for the laboratory.
2. Gypsum poltcty plaster shall con­
Laboratory Samples
tain not less than 90 pcl' cent of calcined
7. Each lu.boratory sample shall be
gypsum (CaSO.·iH20).
placed immediately in an airtight con­
Time of Setting
tainer and shipped to the laboratory for
test.
3. Gypsum pottery plaster shall set
in not less than 20 nor more than 40 min.
Methods of Testing
Tensile Strength
8. The chemical analysis and physical
properties of gypsum pottery plaster
4. Gypsum poltery plaster shall have
shall be determined in accordance with
a tensile strength of not less than
the Standard Methods of. Testing Gyp­
250 psi. ·
sum and Gypsum Products (A.S.T.M.
Fineness
Designation: C 26) of the American
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S. Gypsum pottery plaster shall all Society for Testing Materials, except
pass a No. 30 (590-micron) sieve and
•Under the 1tandardiullon procedure of the Society,
not less than 94 per cent shall pass a th•se 1~cl6catio1>1 are under tho jurisdiction of the
/\.S.T.M. Conunlttu C.11 on Gyr-um.
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No. 100 (149-micron) sieve.
• Prior to adoption u 1taD ...

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