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Ceramics
Of or pertaining to the art or technique of making objects of ceramic such as porcelain, earthenware or tile.
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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.
flocculate
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The process of adding an acidic (usually ) substance (flocculant) which gives particles in suspension opposite electrical charges, causing them to attract one-another (to flock together) - a ...
fritting
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The process of melting particular ceramic materials to a glass and then crushing and grinding to form a frit.
fusion
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
In the glaze-melt, the point where dissolution of sintered structure is complete, and all refractory particles are dissolved into the glaze melt, forming a fused material - one which has melted to ...
insulating firebrick
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Porous firebrick with insulating values much higher than hardbrick.