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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Glassy-phase

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In heating ceramic materials, point where glass-formers and fluxes combine and soften to begin forming a glass.

Tenmoku

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A stoneware glaze deeply coloured by iron oxide. Colours can vary from yellow,green.red.blue or black

Glaze

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A thin coating of glass. An impervious silicate coating, which is developed in clay ware by the fusion under heat of inorganic materials.

Tensile strength

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The resistance of a materal to being stretched by tension or pulling

Glaze compression

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In high-fired wares, ideal state when clay body shrinks slightly more than glaze, putting glaze under slight compression, giving greater strength, resiliency. See CRAZING and SHIVERING.

Ultra-refined clay slip which can give a soft sheen when applied to bone-dry wares, and if polished or burnished while still damp may give a high gloss. All ancient Greek red-black pottery and Roman ...