Same body, glaze, thickness, firing. Same thermal shock. Only the tile crazed?


Friday 4th September 2015

Why did the glaze on the tile insight-live.com/trouble/2">craze? It is double the thickness of the walls of the mug. Thus, when quenched in ice water (BWIW test), a greater gradient occurs between the hot interior of the clay and the rapidly cooling surface.

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Co-efficient of Thermal Expansion, Thermal shock, Glaze Crazing


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