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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barrel arch

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Kiln arch which forms a perfect half circle, with the arch beginning and ending on a horizontal surface, using no skew bricks.

manometer

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Gauge for measuring water column inches. Primitive glass "U-tube manometer" consisting of a “U”-shaped glass tube partially filled with water, with the pressure source connected to one end.

basalt body

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Clay body with enough content of dark clays and/or metallic oxides to fire dark brown or black.

A dull glaze surface, not very reflective when fired. It needs a slow cooling period or it may turn shiny. Mold - A plaster shape designed to pour slip cast into and let dry so the shape comes out as ...

bases

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In glaze chemistry, the fluxes or melting agents which are combined with acids (glass-formers) and neutrals (refractories).

microcrystalline

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Crystal effects dependent on tiny crystals in the glaze surface, as compared to MACROCRYSTALLINE effects.

baso valve

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Safety valve used in conjunction with a thermocouple sensor probe on most gas kilns, operates on minute electrical current generated by thermocouple. Natural-draft kilns equipped with Baso system ...