Ceramics

What are ceramics?

Materials with versatile properties that can have many different uses.

Name 3 ceramics:

Soda-lime glass, borosilicate glass, clay ceramics.

How’s soda-lime glass manufactured?

Heat a mixture of sand, sodium carbonate, limestone.

How’s borosilicate glass manufactured?

Heat sand and boron trioxide

How’s clay ceramic manufactured?

Shape wet clay then heat in a furnace.

What’s the properties of soda-lime glass?

Transparent, brittle

What’s the properties of borosilicate glass?

Higher melting point than soda-lime glass.

What’s the properties of clay ceramics?

Hard, brittle, easy to shape before manufacture, resistant to corrosion.

What’s the use of soda-lime glass?

Everyday glass objects

What’s the use of borosilicate glass?

Oven glassware, laboratory glassware

What’s the use of clay ceramics?

Crockery, construction, plumbing fixtures.