Ceramics

Ceramics

Of or pertaining to the art or technique of making objects of ceramic such as porcelain, earthenware or tile.

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Chrome oxide

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Used to produce yellow or green pigments or glazes

Cobalt oxide

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Used as a blue colourant in body glaze or decoration.

Pressing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Forming of multiples by pressing plastic clay into a plaster press-mold.

A measurement of a material's tendency to expand when heated and contract when cooled. The higher the coefficient of expansion, the lower the thermal-shock-resistance. In firing dissimilar materials ...

Primary air

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In a fuel-burning kiln, air which feeds initial combustion - in a wood-burning kiln, air which feeds base of flames. In a gas kiln air which enters back end of burner tube via atmospheric pressure ...

Porosity

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The amount of pore space in a ceramic body-consists of closed and open pores.

Climbing kiln

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Any one of a variety of East-Asian kiln designs featuring single or multiple chambers which climb up a slope, creating adequate draught often with little or no chimney. See ANAGAMA, NOBORIGAMA, TUBE ...