salt glazing
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salt glaze — salt glazing. a ceramic glaze on stoneware produced by the chemical reaction that occurs when salt is thrown into a kiln during firing. [1850 55] * * * ▪ ceramics in ceramics, a glaze having the texture of orange peel, formed on stoneware… … Universalium
Salt glaze pottery — Pottery referred to as salt glazed or salted is created by adding common salt, sodium chloride, into the chamber of a hot kiln. Sodium acts as a flux and reacts with the silica in the clay body. A typical salt glaze piece has a glassine finish,… … Wikipedia
salt glaze — noun : a stoneware glaze produced by vaporizing common salt in the fire of the kiln at the height of the firing so that the sodium of the salt reacts with silicates of the ware to form a coating of glassy acid resistant mixed silicate of sodium… … Useful english dictionary
salt glaze — noun a hard glaze with a pitted surface, produced on stoneware by adding salt to the kiln during firing. Derivatives salt glazed adjective salt glazing noun … English new terms dictionary
lead glazing — A faulty spark plug condition caused by molten lead salt deposits that solidify into a yellow, brown, or green glaze … Dictionary of automotive terms
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American Stoneware — The term American Stoneware refers to the predominant houseware of nineteenth century America stoneware pottery usually covered in a salt glaze and often decorated using cobalt oxide to produce bright blue decorations. The vernacular term crocks… … Wikipedia
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