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The word ‘ceramic’ is most often used to describe dishes, pottery and figurines. But wall tiles, building bricks, high-voltage insulators and glass products are also ceramics. Ceramics are widely used in a host of other specialized applications: nuclear reactors, space vehicles, electronic modules, computers, pumps, valves, metal-processing furnaces and ladles, optical equipment, supports (Walter, et al., 1989; Saito, et al., 1994), filtration equipment (Eriksson, et al., 1993; Lehtovaara and Mojtahedi, 1993; Burrell, et al., 1994), lasers and protective coatings (Allen, et al., 1993; Dialdo, et al., 1995). The world would be a different place without ceramics. Such critical areas of technology as communications, construction, transportation, power generation and transmission, sanitation, space exploration and medicine (Eisner, 1995) owe their development in part to ceramics technology (Jones and Berard, 1972). Ceramics are products made from natural or synthetic minerals. Most of the important ceramics comprise complex oxides and silicates, although a number of useful carbide, nitride and boride ceramics are also produced (Jones and Berard, 1972). Mica is a common mineral in nature and is utilized as electrical insulation: an example of a naturally occurring ceramic. The great majority of ceramics, however, are synthetic materials produced by the careful blending of raw materials followed by heat treatment to produce new mineral forms (Jones and Berard, 1972). Blending and firing raw materials allow the ceramic engineer to produce useful products including bricks and cements, plasters, abrasives, heat-resistant materials, tableware (Matte, et al., 1994; Baczynskyj and Yess, 1995), glass products of all kinds, single crystals and a host of materials having unique electrical and magnetic properties for use in the electronics industry (Jones and Berard, 1972).

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Nussinovitch, A. (1997). Ceramics. In: Hydrocolloid Applications. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6385-3_11

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