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