
Process for the defluorination of waste gypsum
1 Abstract. Gypsum from the production of phosporic acid is defluorinated by calcining at 200400 DEG C. with silicic acid in a weight ratio of SiO2 : F of at least 2 : 1, in a current of water vapour. A preferred source of silicic acid is that precipitated by the absorption in water of silicon tetrafluoride from waste gases and the silicic ...