Ceramic Oxide Related Information

Understanding Ceramic Oxides

Fired glazes are composed of oxide building blocks. Each of the oxides contributes different properties to the fired glaze and interacts with others in different ways. Understanding these gives you control.

Understanding Glaze Calculation: An Aid to Potters

Bob Kavanagh explains ceramic glaze calculation as a potter for other potters. He deals with theory and show practical examples.

An Overview of Ceramic Stains

Understanding the advantages of disadvantages of stains vs. oxide colors is the key to choosing the best approach

Getting the Glaze Color You Want: Working With Stains

There are many things to know about to make the best use of stains, but one often ignored aspect is the relationship between glaze color and chemistry. If you want to control color you need to know about stains and chemistry.

Ceramic Chemistry Basics - Formula, Analysis, Mole%, Unity, LOI

Part of changing your viewpoint of glazes from a collection of materials to a collection of oxides is learning what a formula and analysis are, now conversion between the two is done and how unity and LOI impact this.

Changing Our View of Glazes

A big secret to getting control of glazes is to begin looking at them as formulas of oxides rather than recipes of materials.

The Four Levels on Which to View Ceramic Glazes

By knowing which level to view a glaze from you are much better equipped to understand and control it. The levels are process, recipe, material, oxide.

Glaze is Off-Color

Questions to ask and strategies to try in dealing with glazes that do not fire the expected color

Ceramic Material Nomenclature

One can look at a ceramic material from a mineral, physical or chemical standpoint. Each viewpoint is appropriate depending on the context, understanding this is a key to exploiting materials properly.