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What raw materials provide particular glaze oxides? |
Unit 1 | Topic 11 | |||||
| Glaze Basics | |||||||
| Mined or synthetically produced raw materials may provide one or more of the oxides needed in a glaze. |
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are some common raw materials with the significant oxides which they
supply to a gaze melt. |
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| Raw Material | Flux Base RO or R2O |
Stabiliser Amphoteric R2O3 |
Glass
Former Acid RO2 |
| Whiting
(calcium carbonate) clays magnesium carbonate feldspars dolomite barium carbonate wollastonite talc |
CaO |
--------- Al2O3 --------- Al2O3 --------- --------- --------- --------- |
--------- SiO2 --------- SiO2 --------- --------- SiO2 SiO2 |
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