{"id":197,"date":"2013-04-03T09:10:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T09:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new-territories.com\/blog\/Crete\/?page_id=197"},"modified":"2013-04-26T03:15:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T03:15:46","slug":"ceramics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.new-territories.com\/blog\/Crete\/ceramics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceramics"},"content":{"rendered":"

On ceramics and glass\u00a0blowing…<\/p>\n

2 materials\/techniques which will be used and challenged during this DIY, along with mold-making – in a\u00a0craftsmen\u00a0village near Chania, Crete<\/p>\n

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\u201cInert glass moulded from within caught the semblance of such an alien grace. Alienated labor becomes alienated grace and the glass blower\u2019s exhalation shaping inert matter from within, arguably a violence done to artisan and material becomes the unique fusion of soul and body, breath and matter, a form made by a God who can penetrate to the innermost spaces of the subject, creating from the inside out. Agency, not powerlessness belongs to the glass blower.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isobel Armstrong, \u201cTransparency: Towards a Poetics of Glass in the Nineteenth Century\u201d in Francis Spufford & Jenny Uglow (Eds) Cultural Babbage. Technology, Time and Invention (London : Faber, 1996): 122-146.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Ceramic” comes from the greek\u00a0word \u03ba\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 (keramikos<\/i>), “of pottery” or “for pottery”,\u00a0from \u03ba\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2 (keramos<\/i>), “potter’s clay, tile, pottery”.\u00a0The earliest mention of the root “ceram-” is the Mycenaean greek\u00a0ke-ra-me-we<\/i>, “workers of ceramics”, written in Linear B\u00a0syllabic script.\u00a0“Ceramic” may be used as an adjective describing a material, product or process; or as a singular noun, or, more commonly, as a plural noun, “ceramics”.<\/p>\n

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A ceramic material is an inorganic, non-metallic, often crystalline oxide, nitride or carbide material. Some elements, such as\u00a0carbon\u00a0or\u00a0silicon, may be considered ceramics. Ceramic materials are brittle, hard, strong in compression, weak in\u00a0shearing\u00a0and tension. They withstand chemical erosion that occurs in other materials subjected to acidic or caustic environments. Ceramics generally can withstand very high temperatures, such as temperatures that range from 1,000 \u00b0C to 1,600 \u00b0C (1,800 \u00b0F to 3,000 \u00b0F). A\u00a0glass\u00a0is often not understood as a ceramic because of its\u00a0amorphous\u00a0(noncrystalline) character. However,\u00a0glass-making\u00a0involves several steps of the ceramic process and its mechanical properties are similar to ceramic materials.<\/p>\n

Traditional ceramic raw materials include clay minerals such as\u00a0kaolinite, whereas more recent materials include aluminium oxide, more commonly known as\u00a0alumina. The modern ceramic materials, which are classified as advanced ceramics, include\u00a0silicon carbide\u00a0and\u00a0tungsten carbide. Both are valued for their abrasion resistance, and hence find use in applications such as the wear plates of crushing equipment in mining operations. Advanced ceramics are also used in the medicine, electrical and electronics industries.<\/p>\n

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Minoan ceramics<\/p>\n

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