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Ceramic Tile- Any of various fired clay tiles used for surfacing walls, floors, and
countertops.
Glazed wall tile- Ceramic tile having a nonvitreous body and a bright, matte, or
crystalline glaze, used for surfacing interior walls and light- duty walls.
Ceramic mosaic tile- small ceramic tile having a porcelain or natural clay body,
glazed for surfacing walls or unglazed for use on both floors and walls, and
usually face-or back-mounted on sheets to facilitate handling and speed
installation.
Quarry tile- Unglazed ceramic floor tile having a natural clay body. Also called
promenade tile.
Paver tile- Unglazed ceramic floor tile similar in composition to ceramic mosaic
but thicker and larger in surface area.
CERAMIC
DEFINITION:
Any of various hard, brittle and nonconductive materials formed by the ionic
bonding of a metal and a non-metal.
2 TYPES
TRADITIONAL
ADVANCED
PROPERTIES
CERAMICS
- Any of various hard, brittle and nonconductive materials formed by the ionic bonding
of a metal and a non-metal.
PROPERTIES:
1. Structural
brick – is a block of ceramic materials used in masonry construction, usually laid using
various kinds of mortar.
Mortar is a workable paste used to bind construction blocks together and fill the gaps
between them.
Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together
by morta
2. Refractories
one that retains its strength at high temperatures.
Bone China – A translucent ceramic material, bisque fired at high temperature, and glazed
fired at low temperature.
bisque: earthenware or porcelain that has been fired at once but not glazed . Also
called biscuit.
glaze: a vitreous layer or coating fused to clay body to color, to decorate , water
proof ,or to strength its surface.
4. Technical is also known as Engineering, Advanced, Special, and in Japan, Fine Ceramics.
tiles used in the Space Shuttle program
gas burner nozzles, jet engine turbine blades
ballistic burner
jet engine turbine blades