What are the main components of ceramics?

1. Ceramics are various products made of natural clay and various natural minerals through crushing, mixing, molding and calcination.

In the past, people called things made of clay and fired in special kilns ceramics, which is the general name of pottery and porcelain. The traditional concept of ceramics refers to all artificial industrial products with inorganic non-metallic minerals such as clay as raw materials. It includes various products made of clay or clay-containing mixture through mixing, molding and calcination. From the roughest earthenware to the finest exquisite ceramics, it belongs to its scope.

3. Its main raw material is silicate minerals from nature (such as clay, timely), so it belongs to the category of "silicate industry" together with glass, cement, enamel, refractory and other industries. The main producing areas of ceramics are Pengcheng Town, Jingdezhen, Liling, Gao 'an, Fengcheng, Pingxiang, Lichuan, Foshan, Chaozhou, Dehua, Zibo, Tangshan and Beiliu. Besides, Jingdezhen is one of the "porcelain capitals" in China.