Slow cooling vs. fast cooling on a cone 6 transparent glaze

Thursday 18th August 2016

These are the inside uppers on two mugs made from the same clay with the same clear glaze. The one on the left was fired in a large electric kiln full of ware (thus it cooled relatively slowly). The one on the right was in a test kiln and was cooled rapidly. This glaze contains 40% Ferro insight-live.com/material/351">Frit 3134 so there is plenty of boron and plenty of calica to grow the borosilicate crystals that cause the cloudiness in the glass. But in the faster cooling kiln they do not have time to grow.

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B2O3, Borate, Clouding in Ceramic Glazes

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