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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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fuel train
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The path of fuel in the plumbing a gas or oil kiln, leading to fuel delivery within the burner.
stoneware clay
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Naturally occurring refractory clays with adequate fluxes to fire in stoneware temperature range.
fuming
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
VAPOR-GLAZING process where metallic salts are introduced into kiln or onto wares at about cone 018, producing thin layer of metallic surface iridescence.
super-cooled liquid
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A material which, in its solid form, maintains the amorphous physical structure of a liquid rather than the ordered structure of a crystalline material. A crystalline material softens or solidifies ...
fusibility
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The melting behaviour of a ceramic glaze,frit,flux or decoration with increase in temperature.
surface tension
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The tendency of a fluid to wet a surface.E.g. low surface tension= high wetting
