Ceramics And Pottery Terms

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Ceramics and pottery terms.

Pinch in ceramics is a method of shaping clay by inserting the thumb of one hand into the clay and lightly pinching with the thumb and fingers while slowly rotating the ball in the palm of the other hand. For example clay has chemically bonded water in it which will cause it to slake down disintegrate when a dried clay object is put in water. The term used for creating pottery using the potter s wheel is throwing. Transparent glaze transmits light clearly.

Technically ceramics are those things made from materials which are permanently changed when heated. Although this term is usually used interchangeably with ceramics it more precisely refers to ceramic objects that have a container shape such as pots planters and tureens. May be fired by wood coal sawdust electricity or gas. It also can be used to refer to factories that produce pottery pieces.

Vitrification the firing of pottery to the point of glossification. General term used to describe refractory pieces used to separate and support pottery during firing. Stoneware all ceramic wear fired between 2 100 and 2 300 degrees. 1 the art and wares made by potters.

Published definitions of pottery include all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed except technical structural and refractory products. Pottery oven or furnace in which ceramic products are fired.