GCSE Product Design Revision (Ceramics)

GCSE Product Design Revision (Ceramics)

1. Materials

   • Inorganic compounds
   • Oxides
   • Non-metalic
   • Nitrides
   • Borides
   • Silicides
   • Carbides

2. Clay

   • Malleable when moist
     • Moist (body clay)
     • Liquid clay (slip
   • Hard when heated (fired)
   • Dug from the ground
   • Formed by weathering
   • Shaped
     • Hand
     • Potter's wheel
     • Poured into moulds (slip)
   • Made
     • Air dried
     • Fired (1000C)
     • Finishes
       • Glass
         • Glazes
   • Types
     • Earthenware
     • Stoneware
     • Porcelain

3. Non-clay

   • Plaster of Paris
     • Noy all ceramics are made from clay. Plaster of Paris is a white powder that sets when mixed with water

4. Uses

   • Ceramics are not just used for Pottery.
   • Heat shield tiles
   • Spark plugs
   • Light bulb insulators
   • High voltage pylon insulators
   • More than just pottery
     • Ceramic particle of iron oxide
       • magnetic recording media
     • Copper-oxide ceramics
       • Superconductor at high tempratures

5. Properties

   • Resists high tempratues
   • Good insulator

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