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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Charge

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A quantity of chemical material, usually salt or soda, which is inserted or injected into a hot kiln during vapor-glazing processes.

Glaze defect characterised by fine pinholes in the surface - often caused by pinholes already present in dry unfired glaze coating. Can also be caused by burst bubbles in glaze surface which are not ...

Casting

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Forming pottery by pouring a slip into a porous mould

Pate-sur-pate

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Paste-on-paste - decoration in which sculptural relief decoration is built up with contrasting slip on surface of leather-hard ware.

Casting slip

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A very fluid slip of high solids content made of clay body,deflocculant and water. It is used in the casting process to form pottery shapes.

Periodic table of the elements

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A table listing all of the chemical elements (those substances which can theoretically be reduced to individual atoms), with the smallest and simplest across the top, and the heaviest and most ...

Ceramic fibre

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Ceramic insulating material composed of spun kaolin fibres - available in blanket form, braided tape, rigid board, and tubular flue-liners. Highest insulating rating of standard refractories, but ...