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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porcelain

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

White stoneware, made from clay prepared from feldspar, china clay, flint and whiting.

clay

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Widely occurring aluminum silicate mineral resulting from natural decomposition of feldspar and granite. Composed of microscopic disk-shaped platelates which give clay its slippery, plastic quality.

porcelaineous

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

White-firing stoneware claybodies closely related to porcelain.

claybody

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Clay mixture formulated of clays and other ceramic raw materials to give desired working characteristics.

porosity

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The amount of pore space in a ceramic body-consists of closed and open pores.

Any one of a variety of East-Asian kiln designs featuring single or multiple chambers which climb up a slope, creating adequate draft often with little or no chimney. See ANAGAMA, NOBORIGAMA, TUBE ...