By introducing other oxide materials(SiO_2, Al_2O_3, CaO) into the red mud, all materials were melted into aluminosilicate glasses. On the basis of 17.2Fe_2O_3-5.7CaO-18.2Al_2O_3-50SiO_2-5.9Na_2O-3TiO_2 system glasses, [Al_2O_3]/[CaO] mass ratio changed further. For each sample, the assignment of IR absorption bands for aluminosilicate glasses was investigated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and the glasstransition temperature and high temperature molten state were studied by differential scanning calorimetry. According to X-Ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry, the behavior of crystallization was analyzed. The results show that the glass structures of three-dimensional network are depolymerized and the amount of non-bridging oxygens increases gradually with network modifier CaO replacing network intermediate Al_2O_3 when [Al_2O_3]/[CaO] ratio of aluminosilicate glass decreases from 4.05 to 0.66, resulting in decreasing density, melting temperature, crystallization peak temperature and glass-transition temperature. As [Al_2O_3]/[CaO] mass ratio decreases, the concentration of crystallized phase maghemite(γ-Fe_2O_3) will increase which provides the possibility for production of black glass-ceramic further.
