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Ceramics
Of or pertaining to the art or technique of making objects of ceramic such as porcelain, earthenware or tile.
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Cheesehard
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Also called leatherhard-a clay body that is dry enough to retain its shape.
China clay
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Also known as kaolin. Made from pegmatite and mined in cornwall and other parts of the world.
Chinastone
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Pegmatite. A fedspar and in its impure form the source china clayin the UK.
Plasticizers
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Materials added to some claybodies, especially those high in kaolins, to increase plasticity and dry strength - includes bentonite, macaloid, Veegum-T.
Porcelain
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
White stoneware, made from clay prepared from feldspar, china clay, flint and whiting.
Clay
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Widely occurring aluminium silicate mineral resulting from natural decomposition of feldspar and granite. Composed of microscopic disk-shaped platelates which give clay its slippery, plastic quality.
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