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Technical information to help technicians and engineers understand materials used in traditional ceramics

But remember, Digitalfire has never been about trading recipes, we teach people to see glazes as oxide formulas instead. Our ultimate hope is that you will learn the chemistry so well that you can use …

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Go to the full picture of this table and click or tap each of the oxides to learn more (on its page at digitalfire.com). When materials melt, they decompose, sourcing these elements in oxide form.

A kaolin that gels slurries (thus handy to suspend ceramic glazes). It is plastic and fires white enough that it is also valuable in porcelain bodies.

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Frits are made by melting mixes of raw materials, quenching the melt in water, grinding the pebbles into a powder. Frits have chemistries raw materials cannot.

This area of the Digitalfire Reference database is intended to capture the firing part of the puzzle. In theory, no glaze should be separated from its firing schedule, especially if it is reactive and special …