“…At between 500 and 520°C, an endothermic peak was observed for kaolinite dehydroxylation (Gardolinski et al , 2003; Ferreira et al , 2012), and at ~560°C, a slight endothermic peak occurred, indicating the presence of quartz and its stoichiometric transformation (Galán-Arboledas et al , 2017; Barreto & da Costa, 2018; Salah et al , 2018). Finally, at between 960 and 980°C, an exothermic peak occurred due to the formation of spinel, which yielded mullite (Becker et al , 2017; de Oliveira Henriques et al , 2017; de Sousa et al , 2017; Wang et al , 2017).…”