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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Stoneware clay

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Naturally occurring refractory clays with adequate fluxes to fire in stoneware temperature range.

Fuming

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

VAPOR-GLAZING process where metallic salts are introduced into kiln or onto wares at about cone 018, producing thin layer of metallic surface iridescence.

A material which, in its solid form, maintains the amorphous physical structure of a liquid rather than the ordered structure of a crystalline material. A crystalline material softens or solidifies ...

Forced-draft

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Direct-connected exhaust system equipped with suction fan, used on some commercial furnaces, but never on studio ceramic kilns. Term often mistakenly used to refer to FORCED-AIR system.

Fracture plane

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Fracture zone which results when clay components are pressed straight together without disrupting the surface (by scoring and adding slurry or by smearing together) to intermix the platelates. Parts ...

Stain

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Commercial ceramic colourants which have been fritted in order to eliminate solubility problems and give greater stability in firing and truer colour before firing. Mixture of ceramic stains or pure ...

Frit

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Combinations of ceramic materials which have been melted to a glass, and crushed/ground back to a powder, in order to give greater chemical stability, and to eliminate toxicity resulting from water ...