Module 1 Keyterms

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Across
  1. 2. The microscopic particles that make up clay.
  2. 3. Allows a clay to dry without cracking or warping.
  3. 5. Clay is hard, strong, nonporous, and vitreous when fired.
  4. 7. Clay that has been fired and ground to a powder.
  5. 10. Water that is added to a clay or clay body to make it plastic.
  6. 13. A low-fire clay, porous and soft after firing.
  7. 14. A white clay body, often translucent when vitrified.
  8. 15. Resistant to heat: hard to melt.
  9. 16. Heating a clay object in a kiln to a specified temperature.
Down
  1. 1. The process of being glasslike.
  2. 4. A very fine, extremely plastic clay.
  3. 5. The individual potter and her or his product.
  4. 6. The quality that allows clay to be formed and to retain the form until dry.
  5. 8. Making products from a nonmetallic mineral by firing at high temperature.
  6. 9. A term used in ceramics to describe pottery or ceramic products at any stage of their development.
  7. 11. A hydrous silicate of alumina that may be found in an unlimited number of forms, usable or unusable, depending upon the impurities each form contains.
  8. 12. The action of kneading clay into a homogeneous mixture, compressing out air bubbles and generally preparing the clay for use.