Ceramic Terms Definitions

This is a list of pottery and ceramic terms.

Ceramic terms definitions.

Throwing creating ceramic shapes on the potter s wheel. Wedging a method of kneading clay to make it homogenous by cutting and rolling. Need some definitions or descriptions of certain key ceramic terms. 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.

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The composition if clay particles renders a plastic quality which means it deforms under pressure and retains a new. A heating chamber for maturing clay and glazes. Vitrification the firing of pottery to the point of glossification. There are 16 definitions included but of course you can pick and choose which ones you use.

Bat a slab on which clay is handled typically a circle piece that can be attached to a pottery wheel head. Highest insulating rating of standard refractories but can release carcinogenic fibers. Basic ceramic terms ceramics. They withstand chemical erosion that occurs in other materials subjected to acidic or caustic environments.

Just print and laminate the sheets cut them out and then in half and you re good to go. A ceramic material is an inorganic non metallic often crystalline oxide nitride or carbide material. See also claybody glaze fit high temp glaze intermediate glaze low temp glaze. Ceramic insulating material composed of spun kaolin fibers available in blanket form braided tape rigid board and tubular flue liners.

This resource is a fantastic starter activity to consolidate the learning of ceramic terms. Don t see a word you need to know or understand. 30 456 822 810. Students work in groups to match the word with the definition.

A shiny reflective surface. A glass coating on a ceramic piece. A natural material extracted from the earth s crust. Definitions in wiktionary are noted as w.

The removing of wares from a kiln. 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. Objects made from clay or other combinations of minerals fired at high temperature. 61 3 8761 6322 fax.

The uppermost part of a pot. Stoneware all ceramic wear fired between 2 100 and 2 300 degrees. Check them out here on our ceramic vocabulary web page.