Ceramics Module 6 Key Terms

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.

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.