Nic Strobel Puzzle 4

3. A what is the natural product, through possibly simply processed to make it homogenous.
6. The fluxes used in the bodys are what?
9. Openers are used to give texture and what.
11. A what is the result of man's technology.
13. An example of a feldspathoid.
14. The frits themselves melt and flux the free silica in the body to produce a molten glass which the interstitial_what____?
15. A ceramic composition that has been fused, quenched, and granulated.

1. What type of clay contains fluxes, hardeners, and openers?
2. What are usually added at the wedging and kneading stage.
4. The hardeners are the free silicas which may be added as quartz, silica sand, cristobalite, and what other material.
5. The blunged slurry is sieved and dried to plasticity by a what.
7. Clay is made up of how many components.
8. Silica is hard but is fluxed during the firing and then gives its hardness to the resulting what?
10. In preparation of a body it is usual to do what to the clays?
12. Grog, fireclay, and organic matter are examples of what.