Ceramics
[sə'ræmɪks]
Definition
(n.) The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.
(n.) Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc.
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Examples
- They produced soa p (from soda and oil), transparent and colored glass, enamel, and ceramics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Consequently other means than the slow processes of nature to dry brick and other ceramics, and the crude kilns are giving way to modern heat distributing structures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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