Type of clay

Question 1

Clay

Answer 1

A compound of decomposed and feldspathic rock consisting of aluminum along with non-plastics, such as quartz and organic matter

Question 2

Porcelain Clay

Answer 2

Pale body of primary clay with a distinctive ring

Question 3

Stoneware Clay

Answer 3

Secondary clay that is not as fine-grained a other bodies

Question 4

Absorbtion

Answer 4

The capacity of a material to soak up liquid

Question 5

Shrinkage

Answer 5

contraction of the clay or glaze in either drying of firing

Question 6

slip

Answer 6

a suspension of clay in water

Question 7

Plasticity

Answer 7

The quality of clay that allows it to be easily shaped and maintain its form without cracking or slumping

Question 8

Leather hard

Answer 8

the condition of raw clay when most of the moisture has evaporated leaving it still soft enough to carve or joined to other pieces

Question 9

Bone dry

Answer 9

The condition of unfired clay that has no assorted moisture other than natural humidity. The form is ready for bisque fire. Extremely fragile.

Question 10

Bisque Ware

Answer 10

clay that has been fired once, unglazed, permanently fired/hardened

Question 11

Blowout

Answer 11

The explosion of clay in the kiln caused by the sudden escape of steam resulting from rapid heating of thick clay or the presence of impurities of air bubbles

Question 12

Blistering

Answer 12

Air bubbles appearing in a glaze after a fat firing

Question 13

Grog

Answer 13

particles of fired clay that has been crushed. added to clay, grog strengthens and helps lesson shrinkage by controlling drying