Across
- 1. you glaze the inside of your greenware pot when it is leather hard and then the outside when it is bone dry.
- 4. includes drying of powder and shaped bodies
- 6. formed by fusing inorganic materials into a glass by heating them
- 8. a flaw in ceramic ware attributed to the decomposition of iron pyrites
- 10. a crystalline form of silica formed in the matrix of clay bodies
- 14. the degrading of ceramics due to interacton
- 15. this is the period in the kiln firing where the final mechanical water is being removed
Down
- 2. the glaze melts on the fired body and forms a vitreous surface
- 3. the sudden volume change in crystalline quartz particles
- 5. used in glasses, glazes and ceramic bodies to lower the high melting point
- 6. the thermal expansion compatibility between glaze and clay body
- 7. a firing defect in which blisters form within a clay body, causing large lumps on the surface
- 9. a rare silicate mineral of post-clay genesis
- 11. when a substance in a product being fired has a lower burning point than what it is being fired with and burns away
- 12. the degree of fluidity
- 13. any pottery that has been fired in a kiln without a ceramic glaze
- 14. a fault that can occur during the firing of ceramic articles