Kiln Flashcards
Articles made of refractory material which support kiln shelves during firing.
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Clay is hardened by heating it to a high temperature, fusing the clay particles. Primitive pottery usually does this on the ground or in pits with whatever flammable material is available. Kilns allow a more efficient use of materials and more control over the atmosphere during it. It has two basic atmospheres. Oxidation and Reduction, these two atmospheres will affect the color of the final piece.
Firing
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Articles made of refractory material which support kiln shelves during firing.
The refractory coating applied to the top of the kiln shelves to protect them from glaze drips.
Kiln Wash
Shelf Cone Temperature
The cone temperature that is fired on the shelf of a kiln. The amount of heating the ware actually receives.
Firing
Clay is hardened by heating it to a high temperature, fusing the clay particles. Primitive pottery usually does this on the ground or in pits with whatever flammable material is available. Kilns allow a more efficient use of materials and more control over the atmosphere during it. It has two basic atmospheres. Oxidation and Reduction, these two atmospheres will affect the color of the final piece.
Is the mixture of time and temperature at which the cone will bend to show the kiln’s temperature on the shelf.
Cone Temperature
The cone temperature that is fired on the shelf of a kiln. The amount of heating the ware actually receives.
Shelf Cone Temperature
Cone Plaque
Is a small clay cone holder used when cones are placed on the shelf of the kiln to stand.
A mixture of ceramic materials that is designed to soften and bend when the proper mixture of time and temperature is reached in the interior of the kiln.
Cone (Pyrometric Cone)
A furnace designed specifically for heating clay to the temperatures necessary to make it permanently hard and stone like. They can be electric, natural gas, wood, coal, fuel, oil, or propane. Materials used to heat it can affect the work: wood ash can build up on the surfaces of a piece and form a glaze at high temperatures. Some potters introduce chemicals into it to influence the effects of the firing. Famed ceramist Beatrice Wood achieved a luster effect by throwing moth balls into it.
Kiln
Element
The heating coils of an electric kiln.
Cone (Pyrometric Cone)
A mixture of ceramic materials that is designed to soften and bend when the proper mixture of time and temperature is reached in the interior of the kiln.
Kiln Wash
The refractory coating applied to the top of the kiln shelves to protect them from glaze drips.
Kiln
A furnace designed specifically for heating clay to the temperatures necessary to make it permanently hard and stone like. They can be electric, natural gas, wood, coal, fuel, oil, or propane. Materials used to heat it can affect the work: wood ash can build up on the surfaces of a piece and form a glaze at high temperatures. Some potters introduce chemicals into it to influence the effects of the firing. Famed ceramist Beatrice Wood achieved a luster effect by throwing moth balls into it.
