Porcelain
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white translucent dense ceramic material produced by fusing under high temperature a mixture of feldspar, kaolin, quartz, whiting and other substances; dental porcelain is used in dental restorations, either jacket crowns or inlays, artificial teeth, or metal-ceramic crowns and is essentially a mixture of particles of feldspar and quartz.
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- Porcelain is a hard ceramic substance made by heating at high temperature selected and refined materials often including clay in the form of kaolinite.
- In Japan, porcelain is produced in many different varieties.
- Throwing Classical Porcelain in Jingdezhen, China Steve Brousseau takes us through the steps Jingdezhen classical porcelain is unlike any other clay.
- Production techniques used in Jingdezhen today: Porcelain is mined, powdered, mixed with water, slaked, squeezed, then pugged.
- About a quarter of the excavated porcelain is decorated solely with cobalt blue underglaze.
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