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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egyptian paste

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A self-glazing clay body in which soluble alkaline fluxes effloresce to the surface as the piece dries, and subsequently form a thin glassy coating in the firing.

Classic Japanese glaze ranging from gray to white to orange, often containing spodumene or other source of lithium, and/or nepheline syenite. The orange color is achieved with thinner glaze coating ...

electrical porcelain

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Type of porcelain used for producing elelectrical insulators. Typical formula 28 ball clay,22 china clay.quartz25,feldspar 25

shivering

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Same as peeling: A defect in glazed and fired ware.The glaze flakes off in pieces particularly on edges.

element

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Any of a group of slightly over 100 substances on earth which may exist as individual atoms, and from which all materials on earth are composed. See PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS. In electric kilns, ...