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Ceramics: The art or technique of making objects of clay and other materials treated by firing.A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic
solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling. Ceramic
materials may have a crystalline or partly crystalline structure, or
may be amorphous (e.g., a glass). Because most common ceramics are
crystalline, the definition of ceramic is often restricted to inorganic
crystalline materials, as opposed to the noncrystalline glasses. The earliest ceramics made by humans were pottery objects, including 27,000 year old figurines, made from clay, either by itself or mixed with other materials, hardened in fire. Later ceramics were glazed and fired to create a coloured, smooth surface. - Wikipedia (online Jan. 2014) |
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