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What is the chemical composition of ceramics?

Ceramic raw materials include kaolin, clay, china stone, porcelain clay, coloring agents, lapis lazuli materials, lime glaze, lime alkali glaze, etc.

Kaolin ceramic raw materials, a type of clay composed mainly of kaolin, was named after it was first discovered in Gaoling Village, northeast of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province.

Clay ceramic raw material is a hydrous aluminum silicate mineral. Generated by feldspar rocks after long-term weathering and geological action, it is a mixture of a variety of fine minerals. The main chemical composition of silica, aluminum oxide and water of crystallization, while containing a small amount of alkali metals, alkaline earth metal oxides and coloring oxides.

Ceramite is also a raw material for making porcelain. Is a kind of quartz, sericite composition, and a number of feldspar, kaolin and other rock-like minerals. It is in the form of dense lumps with the appearance of white, off-white, yellowish-white, and grayish-green, some with a glassy luster and some with an earthy luster.

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Ceramics, English: china. The Chinese invented pottery as early as about 8000-2000 B.C. (Neolithic period). Vessels made from fired clay are called pottery, and those made from porcelain clay are called porcelain. Ceramics, on the other hand, is a general term for earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The ancients called ceramics ou. All the two different properties of clay with pottery and porcelain clay as raw materials, through the ingredients, molding, drying, roasting and other processes made of utensils can be called ceramics.