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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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black-body radiation
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Infrared radiation emitted from any surface or material once it reaches red heat.
montmorillonite
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Clays such as bentonite, resulting from the breakdown of airborne volcanic ash. The finest particle-size of all clays. Very high shrinkage, and generally used only as an additive to claybodies or ...
black-figure style
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
In ancient Greek ceramics, late Archaic and early Classical style in which figure first dominates, and where figures are in black against a red background.
mould
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The shape usually made of plaster used to form the article either by casting or pressing.
blackware firing
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Bonfire-firing which is smothered with manure and/or sawdust at maximum temperature and then buried in sand, dirt, or ash, to trap smoke, causing wares to turn black.
mouse-hole
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
In some wood kilns, a small air-port and passage which admits air directly beneath the coal-bed.
