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Arts & crafts
Arts & crafts comprises a multitude of activities and hobbies that involve making things with one's hands, usually from scratch. They can be sub-divided into 'handicrafts'( or traditional crafts ) that are fashioned in an old style using long practised techniques, and the rest which are more modern inventions that have become recent trends or fads.
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solvent
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
An agent which acts to accelerate the dissolution of a more resistant material. In glaze-maturation, the flux-glass-former combination acts as a solvent upon alumina.
flame-rectification system
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A burner system with automated re-ignition feature which immediate restores flame should it become extinguished. Usually incorporates a fire-eye ultra-violet sensor to monitor ...
spalling
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Defect in repeatedly fired clay materials where outer layers shrink and peel away - most often occurs in kiln hot-face when refractories are repeatedly fired beyond their rated ...
flame-retention tip
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Gas burner tip which causes turbulence in moving stream of gas and air, intermixing them, speeding combustion, holding flame at burner tip, preventing both flame-off and ...
specific gravity
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The weight or density of a liquid measured in proportion to that of water. A glaze with a specific gravity of 1.2 is 1.2 times as dense as water per unit of measure. See ...
flame-ware
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Wares made to stand stove-top heat. Explosions from trapped moisture, and resulting lawsuits have caused studio flame-ware to disappear from the domestic market.
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