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  2. Ceramic - Wikipedia

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    Ceramic material is an inorganic, metallic oxide, nitride, or carbide material. Some elements, such as carbon or silicon, may be considered ceramics. Ceramic materials are brittle, hard, strong in compression, and weak in shearing and tension. They withstand the chemical erosion that occurs in other materials subjected to acidic or caustic ...

  3. Category:Ceramics - Wikipedia

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    Bahasa Indonesia; ... Shqip; Simple English; SlovenĨina; ... Pages in category "Ceramics" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.

  4. Porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Hard-paste porcelain was invented in China, and it was also used in Japanese porcelain.Most of the finest quality porcelain wares are made of this material. The earliest European porcelains were produced at the Meissen factory in the early 18th century; they were formed from a paste composed of kaolin and alabaster and fired at temperatures up to 1,400 °C (2,552 °F) in a wood-fired kiln ...

  5. Glass-ceramic - Wikipedia

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    Macor is a white, odorless, porcelain-like glass ceramic material and was developed originally to minimize heat transfer during crewed spaceflight by Corning Inc. [18] StellaShine, launched in 2016 by Nippon Electric Glass Co., is a heat-resistant, glass-ceramic material with a thermal shock resistance of up to 800 degrees Celsius. [19]

  6. Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics - Wikipedia

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    The building of the Fine Art and Ceramic Museum was completed on January 12, 1870, and was used as the Court of Justice (Dutch: de Raad van Justitie). The building was known as Paleis van Justitie . During the Japanese occupation, the building was used by KNIL and later after the independence of Indonesia, was used as the Indonesian military ...

  7. Ceramic engineering - Wikipedia

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    Simulation of the outside of the Space Shuttle as it heats up to over 1,500 °C (2,730 °F) during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere Bearing components made from 100% silicon nitride Si 3 N 4 Ceramic bread knife. Ceramic engineering is the science and technology of creating objects from inorganic, non-metallic materials. This is done either ...

  8. Tile - Wikipedia

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    This is a US term, and defined in ASTM standard C242 as a ceramic mosaic tile or paver that is generally made by dust-pressing and of a composition yielding a tile that is dense, fine-grained, and smooth, with sharply-formed face, usually impervious. The colours of such tiles are generally clear and bright.

  9. Majapahit Terracotta - Wikipedia

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    Hilda Soemantri, Majapahit Terracotta Art, 1997 Ceramic Society of Indonesia. ISBN 979-95060-1-8 Soedarmadji J H Darmais, Majapahit Terracotta, 2012, BAB Publishing, ISBN 978-979-8926-29-7