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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atomic vibration

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Constant motion in atoms and molecules, present in all materials. Heat accelerates atomic vibration, eventually breaking atomic bonds, causing transition from solid to liquid to gas.

beading glaze

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A specialized controlled-crawl glaze designed to crack and crawl significantly during firing (due to extreme L.O.I. in glaze materials), and then melt into isolated beads on the surface.

car kiln

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Kiln where kiln floor and often the door are mounted on a car which may be rolled in and out of kiln on tracks. Sometimes has two cars, with doors in both ends of the kiln.

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

collaring

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Process of reducing the upper diameter of a thrown form by working the walls of the rotating form inwards with fingers or rib, as in a bottle shape.

copper red

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

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 ...