Alkali fusion of granite sawdust at a high alkali dosage can significantly improve geopolymerization activity, but also result in a high alkali consumption and a poor geopolymer performance. In this work, quartz, the most inert component in granite sawdust, was selected to explore the effect of low-alkali activation on its reactivity and the compressive strength of geopolymer. It was found that the amount of activated quartz is mainly determined by the amount of alkali used for activation. The surface of a quartz particle can be effectively activated by an alkali fusion process at a low alkali dosage of 5%. The metakaolin-based geopolymer synthesized with quartz activated by an alkali dosage of 5% shows a high compressive strength of 41 MPa, which can be attributed to the enhanced interfacial interaction between quartz and the geopolymer gel, suggesting that low-alkali activation is a potential way to improve the geopolymerization ability of granite sawdust.
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