Ceramic Glaze Definitions

Ceramic glaze definition is a mixture of powdered materials that often includes a premelted glass made into a slip and applied to a ceramic body by spraying or dipping and capable of fusing to glassy coating when dried and fired.

Ceramic glaze definitions. Examples of how to use ceramic glaze in a sentence from the cambridge dictionary labs. A thin glassy coating of ice. To glaze a window. Defined by the pottery health regulations as a glaze which does not release more than 5 of its dry weight of soluble lead when subjected to a specified test using hydrochloric acid.

A thin smooth shiny coating. It also gives a tougher surface. A glaze with a specific gravity of 1 2 is 1 2 times as dense as water per unit of measure. Hopefully you will benefit from annie s advice too.

A glassy film as one over the eyes. Ceramic glaze is an impervious layer or coating of a vitreous substance which has been fused to a ceramic body through firing. In glaze maturation the flux glass former combination acts as a solvent on alumina. Glaze definition is to furnish or fit with glass.

Crystal glaze glazes characterised by crystalline clusters of various shapes and colours embedded in a more uniform and opaque glaze. A glaze fault characterised by the cracking of fired glazes and due to high tensile stresses. A coating of colored opaque or transparent material applied to ceramics before firing. The weight or density of a liquid measured in proportion to that of water.

An iridescent optical appearance due to light reflections producing diffraction patterns on a glazed surface. Denver colorado ceramic artist annie chrietzberg is the polar opposite of me in the glaze room. I know my glazing outcomes could be greatly improved if i followed just a couple of annie s pottery glazing tips. Synonym of a potter one who creates pottery archaic.

Glaze is also used on stoneware and porcelain. A transparent coating applied to the surface of a painting to modify the color tones. Or low sol glaze. Glazing renders earthenware vessels suitable for holding liquids sealing the inherent porosity of unglazed biscuit earthenware.

Glaze definition to furnish or fill with glass. A coating as of syrup applied to food.