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  2. Conservation and restoration of ancient Greek pottery

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    Basic mechanical cleaning can remove dirt, dust, and grime. Cleaning solvents and water can also be used to remove dirt, varnish, wax, in-painting, or adhesives. Acids should be used with caution. Desalination is a cleaning method that removes as much soluble salt from the porous fired clay as possible. Fragments are soaked in highly purified ...

  3. Parts cleaning - Wikipedia

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    Parts cleaning is a step in various industrial processes, either as preparation for surface finishing or to safeguard delicate components. One such process, ...

  4. Coiling (pottery) - Wikipedia

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    Making a pot with the coiling technique. Coiling is a method of creating pottery.It has been used to shape clay into vessels for many thousands of years. It is found across the cultures of the world, including Africa, Greece, China, and Native American cultures of New Mexico.

  5. Ceramic forming techniques - Wikipedia

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    Ceramic forming techniques are ways of forming ceramics, which are used to make everything from tableware such as teapots to engineering ceramics such as computer parts. Pottery techniques include the potter's wheel , slip casting and many others.

  6. Ceramic heater - Wikipedia

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    A ceramic heater as a consumer product is a space heater that generates heat using a heating element of ceramic with a positive temperature coefficient (PTC). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ failed verification ] Ceramic heaters are usually portable and typically used for heating a room or small office, and are of similar utility to metal-element fan heaters .

  7. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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    All fired ceramic wares or materials which, when shaped, contain a significant amount of clay. Exceptions are those used for technical, structural or refractory applications. Pottery is also: (1) the art and wares made by potters; (2) a ceramic material (3) a place where pottery wares are made; and (4) the business of the potter.

  8. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Itá, Paraguay is another ceramic center, known for its whimsical, ceramic chickens. [79] Rosa Brítez (b. 1941) is a famous ceramic artist from Itá and has been recognized by UNESCO . The Museo del Barro , "Museum of Clay," in Asunción features pottery from the Gran Chaco, from Pre-Columbian Guaraní to contemporary mestizo ceramics.

  9. Hippocampus slovenicus - Wikipedia

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    The horizon dates 13 million years back to the lower Sarmatian during the middle Miocene period, making the two species the earlier known seahorse fossils in the world. The remains consist mostly of juvenile specimens and of head and backbones of adults. [ 1 ]