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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blistering

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Glaze defect where fired glaze surface contains bubbles, which often break open to leave sharp-edged craters in surface. Most often caused if volatization of materials in clay and glaze is still ...

muffle kiln

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A fuel-burning kiln in which flames and combustion gases are ducted through sealed refractory flues within the ware chamber, heating the wares while maintaining a clean oxidizing atmosphere.

bloating

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Firing defect where blisters form within claybody, raising large lumps on the surface. Caused by expansion of gases within clay, as a result of excessive early reduction (trapped carbon - carbon ...

mullite

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Very desirable aluminum silicate crystals which form above 1800 degrees F. – greatly adding to the strength of high-fired vitrified claybodies and glazes. In well-formulated high-fired wares, ...

multi-fired

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Wares where more than one glaze firing is required to achieve particular surface effects, as in lusters and china paints.

blunge

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The process of mixing a glaze or slip with a motorized impeller mixer.

Firing system in a fuel-burning kiln which uses natural convection currents in kiln (updraft) or in chimney (downdraft), without any mechanical blowers, to draw in secondary air, circulate heat and ...