Ceramic Terms Definitions

Ceramic insulating material composed of spun kaolin fibers available in blanket form braided tape rigid board and tubular flue liners.

Ceramic terms definitions.

This resource is a fantastic starter activity to consolidate the learning of ceramic terms. They withstand chemical erosion that occurs in other materials subjected to acidic or caustic environments. A heating chamber for maturing clay and glazes. Some elements such as carbon or silicon may be considered ceramics ceramic materials are brittle hard strong in compression and weak in shearing and tension.

A glass coating on a ceramic piece. Highest insulating rating of standard refractories but can release carcinogenic fibers. 61 3 8761 6344 a b n. The composition if clay particles renders a plastic quality which means it deforms under pressure and retains a new.

A shiny reflective surface. A natural material extracted from the earth s crust. Don t see a word you need to know or understand. Transparent glaze transmits light clearly.

Terms in this set 38 ceramics. Bat a slab on which clay is handled typically a circle piece that can be attached to a pottery wheel head. Vitrification the firing of pottery to the point of glossification. Stoneware all ceramic wear fired between 2 100 and 2 300 degrees.

Throwing creating ceramic shapes on the potter s wheel. A ceramic material is an inorganic non metallic often crystalline oxide nitride or carbide material. Objects made from clay or other combinations of minerals fired at high temperature. E mail us and we ll add it to the page.

Students work in groups to match the word with the definition. Need some definitions or descriptions of certain key ceramic terms. Check them out here on our ceramic vocabulary web page. The removing of wares from a kiln.

Definitions in wiktionary are noted as w. Walker ceramics australia 5 mclellan st bayswater vic australia 3153 ph. A class of ceramic artifacts in which clay is formed into containers by hand or in molds or with a potter s wheel often decorated and fired. When purchasing ceramic pieces it is important to consider the type of glaze in terms of food safety durability and fit with the underlying claybody.

The uppermost part of a pot. There are 16 definitions included but of course you can pick and choose which ones you use. Wedging a method of kneading clay to make it homogenous by cutting and rolling. This is a list of pottery and ceramic terms.

Basic ceramic terms ceramics. Creation of an object out of clay. Just print and laminate the sheets cut them out and then in half and you re good to go.