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61 relations: Aluminium oxide, Ball clay, Ball mill, Bentonite, Biscuit (pottery), Biscuit porcelain, Bone ash, Bone china, Celadon, Ceramic, Ceramic flux, Ceramic glaze, China stone, Clay, Crock (dishware), Delftware, Earthenware, Faience, Feldspar, Filter press, Fire clay, Flexural strength, Flint, Frit, Fritware, Glossary of archaeology, Gum arabic, Hard-paste porcelain, Holloware, Iron oxide, Kaolinite, Kiln, Kiln furniture, Kneading, Leather-hard, Majolica, Mullite, Opacifier, Orton Ceramic Foundation, Porcelain, Potter's wheel, Pottery, Pottery gauge, Pyrometric cone, Quartz, Quartz inversion, Redox, Resist, Saggar, Slip (ceramics), ... Expand index (11 more) »
- Glossaries of technology
- Glossaries of the arts
Aluminium oxide
Aluminium oxide (or aluminium(III) oxide) is a chemical compound of aluminium and oxygen with the chemical formula.
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Ball clay
Ball clays are kaolinitic sedimentary clays that commonly consist of 20–80% kaolinite, 10–25% mica and 6–65% quartz, along with small amounts of organic matter (such as lignite) and trace amounts of other minerals such as pyrite and siderite. Glossary of pottery terms and Ball clay are pottery.
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Ball mill
A ball mill is a type of grinder filled with grinding balls, used to grind or blend materials for use in mineral dressing processes, paints, pyrotechnics, ceramics, and selective laser sintering.
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Bentonite
Bentonite is an absorbent swelling clay consisting mostly of montmorillonite (a type of smectite) which can either be Na-montmorillonite or Ca-montmorillonite.
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Biscuit (pottery)
Biscuit (also known as bisque) refers to any pottery that has been fired in a kiln without a ceramic glaze. Glossary of pottery terms and Biscuit (pottery) are pottery.
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Biscuit porcelain
Biscuit porcelain, bisque porcelain or bisque is unglazed, white porcelain treated as a final product, with a matte appearance and texture to the touch.
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Bone ash
Bone ash is a white material produced by the calcination of bones.
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Bone china
Bone china is a type of vitreous, translucent pottery, the raw materials for which include bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin. Glossary of pottery terms and bone china are pottery.
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Celadon
Celadon is a term for pottery denoting both wares glazed in the jade green celadon color, also known as greenware or "green ware" (the term specialists now tend to use), and a type of transparent glaze, often with small cracks, that was first used on greenware, but later used on other porcelains.
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Ceramic
A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.
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Ceramic flux
Fluxes are substances, usually oxides, used in glasses, glazes and ceramic bodies to lower the high melting point of the main glass forming constituents, usually silica and alumina.
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Ceramic glaze
Ceramic glaze, or simply glaze, is a glassy coating on ceramics. Glossary of pottery terms and ceramic glaze are pottery.
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China stone
China stone (occasionally Cornish stone or Cornwall stone) is a medium grained, feldspar-rich partially kaolinised granite characterised by the absence of iron-bearing minerals.
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Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
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Crock (dishware)
A crock is a pottery container sometimes used for food and water, synonymous with the word pot, and sometimes used for chemicals.
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Delftware
Delftware or Delft pottery, also known as Delft Blue (Delfts blauw) or as delf, is a general term now used for Dutch tin-glazed earthenware, a form of faience.
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Earthenware
Earthenware is glazed or unglazed nonvitreous pottery that has normally been fired below. Glossary of pottery terms and Earthenware are pottery.
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Faience
Faience or faïence is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. Glossary of pottery terms and Faience are pottery.
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Feldspar
Feldspar (sometimes spelled felspar) is a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals, also containing other cations such as sodium, calcium, potassium, or barium.
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Filter press
An industrial filter press is a tool used in separation processes, specifically to separate solids and liquids.
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Fire clay
Fire clay is a range of refractory clays used in the manufacture of ceramics, especially fire brick.
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Flexural strength
Flexural strength, also known as modulus of rupture, or bend strength, or transverse rupture strength is a material property, defined as the stress in a material just before it yields in a flexure test.
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Flint
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.
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Frit
A frit is a ceramic composition that has been fused, quenched, and granulated.
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Fritware
Fritware, also known as stone-paste, is a type of pottery in which frit (ground glass) is added to clay to reduce its fusion temperature. Glossary of pottery terms and Fritware are pottery.
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Glossary of archaeology
This page is a glossary of archaeology, the study of the human past from material remains.
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Gum arabic
Gum arabic (gum acacia, gum sudani, Senegal gum and by other names) is a natural gum originally consisting of the hardened sap of two species of the Acacia tree, Senegalia senegal and Vachellia seyal. However, the term "gum arabic" does not actually indicate a particular botanical source.
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Hard-paste porcelain
Hard-paste porcelain, sometimes called "true porcelain", is a ceramic material that was originally made from a compound of the feldspathic rock petuntse and kaolin fired at a very high temperature, usually around 1400 °C.
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Holloware
Holloware (mostly in American English) or hollow-ware is tableware that forms a vessel or container of some kind, as opposed to flatware such as plates.
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Iron oxide
Iron oxides are chemical compounds composed of iron and oxygen.
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Kaolinite
Kaolinite (also called kaolin) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition: Al2Si2O5(OH)4.
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Kiln
A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes.
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Kiln furniture
Kiln furniture are devices and implements inside furnaces used during the heating of manufactured individual pieces, such as pottery or other ceramic or metal components. Glossary of pottery terms and Kiln furniture are pottery.
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Kneading
In cooking (and more specifically baking), kneading is a process in the making of bread or dough, used to mix the ingredients and add strength to the final product.
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Leather-hard
In pottery, leather-hard is the condition of a clay or clay body when it has been partially dried to a consistency similar to leather of the same thickness as the clay. Glossary of pottery terms and leather-hard are pottery.
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Majolica
In different periods of time and in different countries, the term majolica has been used for two distinct types of pottery. Glossary of pottery terms and majolica are pottery.
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Mullite
Mullite or porcelainite is a rare silicate mineral formed during contact metamorphism of clay minerals.
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Opacifier
An opacifier is a substance added to a material in order to make the ensuing system opaque.
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Orton Ceramic Foundation
The roots of the Orton Ceramic Foundation date back to the establishment of the "Standard Pyrometric Cone Company" in 1896 by Edward J. Orton, Jr. In 1894, he was appointed the first Chairman of the Ceramic Engineering Department at Ohio State University, the first ceramic engineering school in the United States.
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Porcelain
Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between. Glossary of pottery terms and Porcelain are pottery.
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Potter's wheel
In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of clay into round ceramic ware. Glossary of pottery terms and potter's wheel are pottery.
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Pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form.
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Pottery gauge
A pottery gauge is one of various tools used in pottery to ensure that pots thrown on a potter's wheel are uniform in size or shape. Glossary of pottery terms and pottery gauge are pottery.
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Pyrometric cone
Pyrometric cones are pyrometric devices that are used to gauge heatwork during the firing of ceramic materials in a kiln. Glossary of pottery terms and pyrometric cone are pottery.
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Quartz
Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide).
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Quartz inversion
The room-temperature form of quartz, α-quartz, undergoes a reversible change in crystal structure at 573 °C to form β-quartz.
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Redox
Redox (reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change.
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Resist
A resist, used in many areas of manufacturing and art, is something that is added to parts of an object to create a pattern by protecting these parts from being affected by a subsequent stage in the process. Glossary of pottery terms and resist are pottery.
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Saggar
A saggar (also misspelled as sagger or segger) is a type of kiln furniture. Glossary of pottery terms and saggar are pottery.
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Slip (ceramics)
A slip is a clay slurry used to produce pottery and other ceramic wares. Glossary of pottery terms and slip (ceramics) are pottery.
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Slip casting
Slip casting, or slipcasting, is a ceramic forming technique, and is widely used in industry and by craft potters to make ceramic forms. Glossary of pottery terms and slip casting are pottery.
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Slipware
Slipware is pottery identified by its primary decorating process where slip is placed onto the leather-hard (semi-hardened) clay body surface before firing by dipping, painting or splashing.
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Soft-paste porcelain
Soft-paste porcelain (sometimes simply "soft paste", or "artificial porcelain") is a type of ceramic material in pottery, usually accepted as a type of porcelain. Glossary of pottery terms and Soft-paste porcelain are pottery.
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Stilt (ceramics)
Stilts are small supports used when firing glazed ceramics to stop the melting glaze from fusing them to each other or the kiln. Glossary of pottery terms and Stilt (ceramics) are pottery.
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Terracotta
Terracotta, also known as terra cotta or terra-cotta, is a clay-based non-vitreous ceramicOED, "Terracotta";, MFA Boston, "Cameo" database fired at relatively low temperatures. Glossary of pottery terms and Terracotta are pottery.
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Tile crank
A tile crank is used in a pottery kiln to hold a stack of ceramic tiles apart while they are fired. Glossary of pottery terms and tile crank are pottery.
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Tin-glazed pottery
Tin-glazed pottery is earthenware covered in lead glaze with added tin oxide which is white, shiny and opaque (see tin-glazing for the chemistry); usually this provides a background for brightly painted decoration. Glossary of pottery terms and tin-glazed pottery are pottery.
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Tin-glazing
Tin-glazing is the process of giving tin-glazed pottery items a ceramic glaze that is white, glossy and opaque, which is normally applied to red or buff earthenware.
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Underglaze
Underglaze is a method of decorating pottery in which painted decoration is applied to the surface before it is covered with a transparent ceramic glaze and fired in a kiln.
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Vitreous enamel
Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between. Glossary of pottery terms and Vitreous enamel are pottery.
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Wiktionary
Wiktionary (rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.
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See also
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- Glossary of British bricklaying
- Glossary of HVAC terms
- Glossary of aerospace engineering
- Glossary of agriculture
- Glossary of artificial intelligence
- Glossary of automotive terms
- Glossary of boiler terms
- Glossary of civil engineering
- Glossary of coal mining terminology
- Glossary of cycling
- Glossary of engineering: A–L
- Glossary of engineering: M–Z
- Glossary of fuel cell terms
- Glossary of mechanical engineering
- Glossary of microelectronics manufacturing terms
- Glossary of nanotechnology
- Glossary of pottery terms
- Glossary of power electronics
- Glossary of power generation
- Glossary of quantum computing
- Glossary of sewing terms
Glossaries of the arts
- Glossary of architecture
- Glossary of glass art terms
- Glossary of graffiti
- Glossary of owarai terms
- Glossary of poetry terms
- Glossary of pottery terms
- Glossary of sculpting
- Glossary of theater terms
- Glossary of vexillology
- List of ukiyo-e terms
References
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