Ceramics are more than clay alone : raw materials, products, applications / P. Bormans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bormans, P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ceramics.

Clay industries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge International Science Publishing, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book deals with many aspects of ceramics from 25,000BC till today at a level for the interested lay person and students of secondary vocational schools. In addition, other sciences which are involved in ceramics are described to a level that is necessary to understand ceramics, for example chemistry, colloid chemistry, crystallography, etc. Ceramics are so placed in the middle of the 'spiders web' of natural sciences.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1 Introduction

2 History and Future of Ceramics

3 Chemistry

4 Crystallography

5 Colloid Chemistry

6 Phase Rule

7 Geology and Mineralogy

8 Clay

9 Ceramics in General

10 Plastics, Metals and Ceramics: A Comparison

11 Fine Ceramics

12 A Collection of Short Articles on Various Ceramic items

13 Analytical Methods

14 Ceramic Composites

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-280-36119-0

9786610361199

1-904602-31-2

1-4237-2859-9

OCLC:

70746450