}ULASERJET }.mt 10 .hm 3 .pn 1 .h1Grayson Enterprises ”   „   „œ   „    „€  Sidebar for Painters .h2Page #. .fo SIDEBAR : PORCELAIN PAINTING  Biscuit or bisque - unglazed porcelain or pottery. Bone china - standard English porcelain containing the ashes of   bones, making it more chip-resistant. Ceramics - the process of making useful or ornamental objects   from clay by shaping them and then firing at high temperatures. Clays - natural earthy materials that are plastic when wet,   consisting usually of hydrates of silica. Different kinds and colors of clay account fro the differences in   the finished products. Clay can be molded into almost any shape. Earthenware - pottery made of baked or hardened coarse and   opaque clays. Glaze - a shiny coating, rendering porcelain impervious to   liquids and imparting a surface brilliance. Glazes  can be translucent, opaque, or colored. Kiln - a furnace or oven for drying something by exposing it  to high heat. π03 Š Porcelain - a strong ceramic material that transmits light and   that has developed vitreosity (the quality of brittle   glass) by being exposed to heat. Pottery - any receptacle made of clay, but usually referring to earthenware fired at low temperature as distinguished   from stoneware or porcelain, fired at higher   temperatures. Stoneware - a hard, opaque, vitreous ceramic ware, usually  "salt-glazed" by throwing common salt into the kiln   when it reaches maximum temperature. The salt   decomposes into sodium oxide and hydrochloric acid. The sodium oxide combines with the silica of the   pottery to form a thin coating of glass. #####