Ceramic Dictionary Online

1 pots and other articles made from clay hardened by heat.

Ceramic dictionary online. Dictionary about majolic ceramic by susan mussi. Made from clay that has been shaped and then baked until hard. Acidic oxides in pottery acids are used in slips and glazes. It now has a wider application and covers every process using clay in industrial and handmade pottery from working with clay to the finished product.

Of or relating to pottery earthenware tile porcelain etc. Find out more about the dictionary. Ceramic comes from the greek word keramos meaning clay changed by heat burnt clay. In chemistry it is a compound usually having a sour taste and capable of neutralizing alkalis and reddening blue litmus paper also containing hydrogen that can be replaced by a metal or an electropositive group to form a salt or containing an atom that can accept a pair of electrons from a base.

Her ceramics were made with clay that was baked in a kiln to make it permanent. Sə răm ĭk any of various hard brittle heat and corrosion resistant materials made typically of metallic elements combined with oxygen or with carbon nitrogen or sulfur. Clay that has been shaped and. Of ceramicsorigin of ceramicclassical greek keramikos from keramos potter s clay pottery 3.

Ceramic pottery dictionary. Many of the painted ceramics are of native manufacture. Most ceramics are crystalline and are poor conductors of electricity though some recently discovered copper oxide ceramics are superconductors at low temperatures. In english catalan and spanish with illustrations the international language.

V the art or work of making objects of baked clay.