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Types of Ceramic Materials

For convenience ceramic products are usually divided into four sectors, and these are shown below with some examples:

• Structural, including bricks, pipes, floor and roof tiles
• Refractories, such as kiln linings, gas fire radiants, steel and glass making crucibles
• Whitewares, including tableware, wall tiles, decorative art objects and sanitaryware
• Technical, is also known as Engineering, Advanced, Special, and in Japan, Fine Ceramics. Such items include tiles used in the Space Shuttle program, gas burner nozzles, ballistic protection, nuclear fuel uranium oxide pellets, bio-medical implants, jet engine turbine blades, and missile nose cones. Frequently the raw materials do not include clays.

Examples of Structural ceramics

• Bricks (mostly aluminium silicates), used for construction.

Examples of Whiteware Ceramics

• Bone china
• Earthenware, which is often made from clay, quartz and feldspar
• Porcelain, which usually contains the clay mineral kaolinite
• Stoneware

20.01.2007. 08:38

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