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Bone ash is a white material produced by the calcination of bones. Typical bone ash consists of about 55.82% calcium oxide , 42.39% phosphorus pentoxide , and 1.79% water . [ 1 ] The exact composition of these compounds varies depending upon the type of bones being used, but generally the formula for bone ash is Ca 5 (OH)(PO 4 ) 3 .
Bone china is a type of vitreous, translucent pottery, [1] the raw materials for which include bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin. It has been defined as "ware with a translucent body" containing a minimum of 30% of phosphate derived from calcined animal bone or calcium phosphate. [ 2 ]
Bone char (Latin: carbo animalis) is a porous, black, granular material produced by charring animal bones. Its composition varies depending on how it is made; however, it consists mainly of tricalcium phosphate (or hydroxyapatite ) 57–80%, calcium carbonate 6–10% and carbon 7–10%. [ 1 ]
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In 1749, Thomas Frye, a portrait painter, took out a patent on a porcelain containing bone ash. This was the first bone china; only much later, around 1794, was the formula perfected by Josiah Spode, and then soon near-universally adopted in England. But bone ash was frequently an ingredient in English soft-paste.
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The earliest Bow porcelains are of soft-paste incorporating bone ash, forming a phosphatic body that was a precursor of bone china. By 1749–1750 the business had moved from Bow to 'New Canton', a new factory on the Essex side of the River Lea, close to Bow Bridge, just west of Stratford High Street and beside Bow Back River.