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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Intermittent kiln

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A kiln which is loaded cold, brought to temperature, cooled and unloaded. See CONTINUOUS KILN.

Popular midrange and high-fire glazes featuring very small percentage of copper which, under correct light reducing conditions, gathers into colloidal particles of red copper oxide, producing bright ...

Deflocculate

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Process of adding an alkaline (usually) material (deflocculant) to a suspension, which introduces like electrical charges to all particles, causing them repel one another and remain in suspension. A ...

Draw-rings

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In vapor-glaze firing, small rings of clay, formed to stand vertically, which are placed inside a spy-hole and may be removed with an iron rod during the firing, quenched in water, and examined to ...

Flame-off

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In burners, when speed of air/fuel mixture exiting tip of burner is greater than combustion rate - flame jumps off tip of burner and often blows out.

Air-floated

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Industrial method used in processing of raw clays, where powdered clay is floated in an airstream to settle out heavier particles.

China paints

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Very-low-temperature (cone 018) glaze colours applied over a previously-fired higher-temperature glaze. Allow greater detail, brighter colours than other ceramic glaze effects, but are vulnerable to ...