Properties of Ceramic Raw Materials

Contents


1. Introduction


2. Manufacturing Processes

2.1. Body Preparation ·

Methods of Mixing

2.1.1. Dry Mixing

2.1.2. Plastic Mixing

2.1.3. Slip Mixing

2.1.4. Direct Preparation of Casting Slip

2.1.5. Spray Drying

2.2. Making Methods

2.2.1. Slip Casting

2.2.2. Plastic Making

2.2.3. Other Methods of Making

2.3. Firing and Finishing


3. Properties Important During Making

3.1. Plasticity

3.2. Dry-strength

3.3. Drying Shrinkage

3.4 Suspension Properties and Slip Casting


4. Reactions Occurring on Firing


5. Ceramic Raw Materials

5.1. Clays

5.1.1. Formation

5.1.2. Residual and Sedimentary Clays

5.1.3. The Structure of the Kaolins

5.1.4. The Kaolinitic Clays

5.1.5. The Structure of the Montmorillonites

5.1.6. The Micas

5.1.7. The Illites or Hydrous Micas

5.1.8. The Chlorites

5.1.9. The Vermiculites

5.1.10. Isomorphous Substitution in the Clay Minerals

5.1.11. Cation Exchange

5.1.12. The Clay- Water System

5.1.13. Practical Uses of the Cation Exchange Properties of Clays

5.2. Silica

5.3. Fluxes

5.3.1. Felspars

5.3.2. Cornish Stone

5.3.3. Nepheline Syenite

5.3.4. Bone Ash

5.4. Refractory Materials

5.4.1. Alumino-silicate Refractories

5.4.2. Oxide Refractories

5.4.3. Other Refractory Materials

5.5. Materials Used in Low Expansion Bodies, Glasses and Glazes

5.6. Plaster of Paris

5.7. Materials Used in Ceramic Glazes

5.8. Colouring Materials Used in Decoration

5.9. Materials Used in Electrical Applications

Index