Ceramics Module 6 Key Terms
Across
- 2. A decorative process. Colored engobes and slip glazes are applied to wet greenware.
- 4. A metallic element used as a flux in low-fire glazes.
- 5. A hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda, lime, and sometimes other ingredients and cooling rapidly.
- 6. The action of natural forces like wind, water, and ice that causes mountains to crumble and disintegrate into rocks, sand, dirt, and finally clay.
- 9. A naturally occurring iron-bearing clay that is used as a slip glaze or in glazes.
- 13. The area between a glaze and the clay surface where the two melt together, forming an interlocking bond.
- 14. The brilliance or intensity of a color, such as bright red or dull green.
- 15. A stain applied under a glaze.
- 16. Colorant brushed onto bisque fired ware.
Down
- 1. The glass forming part of glaze.
- 2. A glaze that is either clay or mostly clay and is applied over wet clay.
- 3. Generally, a light-colored clay body that has been colored with metallic oxides.
- 7. A thin layer of glass that is melted onto a pot for decorative or utilitarian purposes.
- 8. A method of glazing by throwing salt into a hot kiln.
- 10. Causing or capable of causing death or illness if taken into the body.
- 11. A flux used in low-fire glazes.
- 12. A metallic oxide stain that is applied over a glaze either before or after the glaze has been fired.