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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Ceramics

Any of a group of slightly over 100 substances on earth which may exist as individual atoms, and from which all materials on earth are composed. See PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS. In electric kilns, ...

Efforescence

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A growth on the surface of bricks or other articles due to the the presence of soluble salts.

Shelling

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Same as peeling: A defect in glazed and fired ware.The glaze flakes off in pieces particularly on edges.

Egyptian paste

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A self-glazing clay body in which soluble alkaline fluxes effloresce to the surface as the piece dries, and subsequently form a thin glassy coating in the firing.