Facts About Ceramics

Ceramics are classified as inorganic and nonmetallic materials that are essential to our daily lifestyle.

Facts about ceramics.

Early pottery vessels were used primarily for storing liquids grains and other items. The word ceramics is traced back to the greek term keramos meaning potter s clay or pottery. Ceramic is the name for some materials that are formed by the use of heat the word ceramic comes from the greek word κεραμικός keramikos chemically it is an inorganic compound of metal non metal or metalloid atoms held together by chemical bonds. Glass ceramics have a structure that consists of many tiny crystalline regions within a noncrystalline matrix.

Facts about ceramics 3. Traditional ceramic raw materials include clay minerals such as kaolinite. Keramos in turn is related to an older sanskrit root meaning to burn ceramus or keramos was also an ancient city on the north coast of the aegean sea in what is currently turkey. But in general people consider ceramic as the material which has the chemical resistance poor conductivity high melting temperature low ductility chemical resistance high moduli of elasticity and high hardness.

Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials including clay it may take forms including artistic pottery including tableware tiles figurines and other sculpture as one of the plastic arts ceramic art is one of the visual arts while some ceramics are considered fine art as pottery or sculpture most are considered to be decorative industrial or applied art objects. In addition most ceramics are opaque to visible light and glasses tend to be translucent. Common examples are earthenware porcelain and brick. Up to the 1950s or so the most important were the traditional clays made into pottery bricks tiles and the like also cements and.

Ceramics tend to have high well defined melting points while glasses tend to soften over a range of temperatures before becoming liquids.