Ceramic Oxide Periodic Table

Monday 29th December 2014

Pretty well all common traditional ceramic insight-live.com/glossary/262">base glazes are made from less than a dozen elements (plus oxygen). Go to the full picture of this table and click or tap each of the oxides to learn more (on its page at digitalfire.com). When materials melt, they decompose, sourcing these elements in oxide form. The kiln builds the glaze from them, it does not care what material sources what oxide (assuming, of course, that all materials do melt or dissolve completely into the melt to release those oxides). Each of these oxides contributes specific properties to the glass. So, you can look at a formula and make a good prediction of the properties of the fired glaze. And know what specific oxide to increase or decrease to move a property in a given direction (e.g. melting behavior, hardness, durability, thermal expansion, color, gloss, crystallization). And know about how they interact (affecting each other). This is powerful. A lot of ceramic materials are available, hundreds - that is complicated when individual materials source multiple oxides. Viewing a glaze as a simple unity formula of ceramic oxides is just simpler.

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KNaO, Li2O, ZnO, Na2O, MgO, SrO, ZrO, MnO, MnO2, V2O5, CrO3, Fe2O3, FeO, NiO, ZrO2, TiO2, SiO2, PbO, Al2O3, B2O3, BaO, Bi2O3, CaO, CoO, Cr2O3, Cu2O, CuO, SnO2, Changing Our View of Glazes, Understanding Ceramic Oxides, Glaze Chemistry Basics - Formula, Analysis, Mole%, Unity , Ceramic Oxide, Oxide Formula, Glaze Chemistry, Decomposition, Oxides

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