Thermal shock failure in raw ball clay much worse than the 100 mesh material

Wednesday 27th July 2016

The cup on the left is raw, unground, insight-live.com/material/80">ball clay (Plainsman A2 fired to cone 10 reduction). It cracked under a flame in only 4 seconds. The 200 mesh version on the right lasted 14 seconds (it is broken because I dropped it). It would appear that the larger quartz particles in the material on the left are imparting much less resistance to thermal shock failure.

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