Correlation between silicon dioxide and iron oxide contents of red mud samples

Abstract

The structure of red mud deposits of Seydisehir, Turkey were investigated by simple but effective statistical analysis. The results obtained under variable iron oxide contents were used to generate an empirical relationship by plotting, at different scales, D2D2, versus K1K2, where D1 is the percent iron oxide, D2 is the mean percent iron oxide, K1 is the percent silicon dioxide and K2 is the mean percent silicon dioxide. As a result of these trials, it was found that the use of logarithmic coordinates gave a straight line with the empirical equation for the system in question being: D1 = 1.0092 · D2 · K1−0.02 · K2−0.02.