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1. _____ refers to as any broad class of ceramic products that are white to off-white in appearance
and frequently contain a significant vitreous, or glassy, component.
a. Whitewares
2. _____ products examples as fine china dinnerware, lavatory sinks and toilets, dental implants, and
spark-plug insulators.
a. Whitewares
3. _____ are often referred to as triaxial bodies.
a. Whitewares
4. Whiteware owing composition to the three mineral types—clay, silica, and feldspar—consistently
found in their makeup.
5. _____ is the plastic component, giving shaping abilities to the unfired product and also serving as a
glass former during firing.
a. Clay
6. _____ (the common name used in the industry for all forms of silica) serves as a filler, lending
strength to the shaped body before and during firing.
a. Flint
7. _____ serves as a fluxing agent, lowering the melting temperatures of the mixture.
a. Feldspar
8. _____ is the most important of the ingredients, and the most important clay used in fine whiteware
products is Kaolin, also known as China clay.
a. Clay
9. _____ is the only type of clay from which a white, translucent, vitreous ceramic can be made.
a. Kaolin
10. _____ meaning that it can be fired at high temperatures without deforming, and it is a white
burning, meaning, that it imparts whiteness to a finished ware.
a. Refractory clay
11. _____ products are often differentiated into three main classes—porous, semi-vitreous. and
vitreous—according to their degree of vitrification (and resulting porosity).
a. Whiteware
12. Whitewares proceeding from porous to vitreous, more particular product categories include _____,
_____, _____, _____.
a. Earthenware b. Stoneware c. China Tech Porcelain d. None
13. _____ is non-vitreous and of medium porosity. It is often glazed to provide fluid impermeability
and an attractive finish.
a. Earthenware
14. Whitewares specific products include _____, _____, and _____.
a. tableware b. sanitaryware c. decorative tile ware d. All of the above
15. _____ depend for their utility upon a relatively small set of properties: imperviousness to fluids,
low conductivity of electricity, chemical inertness, and an ability to be formed into complex shapes.
a. Whiteware
16. _____ a hydrous aluminosilicate with a fine, platy structure; its ideal chemical formula is
Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4.
a. Kaolinite
17. _____ are composed mostly of well-ordered kaolinite, with no impurities.
a. China clays
18. _____ are usually made of Ball clays, which incorporate ordered and disordered kaolinite plus other
clay minerals and impurities.
a. Lower-grade Whitewares
19. _____, particularly Iron oxides render the fired ware off-white to gray or tan in colour.
a. Whiteware impurities
20. Whiteware impurities, particularly_____—render the fired ware off-white to gray or tan in colour.
a. Iron oxides
21. _____ is a semi-vitreous or vitreous whiteware with a fine microstructure (that is, a fine
arrangement of solid phases and glass on the micrometre level).
a. Stoneware
22. _____ include Tableware, Cookware, Chemical ware, and Sanitary ware (e.g., drainpipe).
a. Whitewares products
23. _____ are often referred to as porcelains, but in the ceramics industry a distinction is maintained
between the true porcelains (or technical porcelains) and china.
a. Vitreous whitewares
24. _____ is vitreous whiteware for non-technical applications. Because of its high glass content, it can
be used unglazed, though it also can be glazed for aesthetic appeal.
a. Chinaware
25. _____ is known for high strength and impact resistance and also for low water absorption—all
deriving from the high glass content.
a. Chinaware
26. _____ typical products include hotel china, a lower grade of china tableware with a strength and
impact resistance suiting it to commercial use;
a. Chinaware
27. _____ (including bone china), a highly vitreous, translucent tableware; and sanitary plumbing
fixtures.
a. Fine china
28. _____ like china, are vitreous and nonporous. They are similarly strong and impact-resistant, but
they are also chemically inert in corrosive environments and are excellent insulators against
electricity.
a. Technical porcelains
29. _____ include chemical ware, dental implants, and electric insulators, including spark-plug
insulators in automobile engines.
a. Whiteware applications
30. _____ The forming and firing processes employed in the manufacture of whiteware products are
outlined in the article industrial ceramics.
a. Whiteware processing
31. _____ is employed in the forming of tiles, chemical ware, and technical porcelains; extrusion in the
forming of tiles and sanitary ware (including pipe).
a. Pressing
32. _____ in the forming of plumbing fixtures and some tableware. In addition to these standard
processes, jiggering is employed in the manufacture of tableware.
a. Slip casting
33. _____ involves the mixing of a plastic mass and turning it on a wheel beneath a template to a
specified size and shape.
a. Jiggering
34. _____ are fired in continuous tunnel kiln at lower temperatures (1,100–1,250 °C, or approximately
2,000–2,300 °F.
a. Whitewares
35. _____ are fired at 1,250 to 1,300 °C (2,300 to 2,400 °F).
a. China and true porcelains
36. Porous and _____ may be glazed in a second firing to produce an impermeable glass coating for
decorative or functional purposes.
a. Semi-vitreous whitewares
37. _____ an example is a typical feldspar-clay-silica composition whiteware with a particularly high
glassy component.
a. Porcelain
38. _____ small grains of feldspar would begin to form liquid at temperatures as low as 990 °C (1,810
°F), and large feldspar grains would be molten by 1,140 °C (2,080 °F).
a. Porcelain
39. _____ - a crystalline aluminosilicate mineral formed during the firing of clay-silica mixtures) would
grow into the liquid regions.
a. Mullite