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Top: A thin porcelain tile with etched design. Bottom: The same tile with a back light. By Stephanie Osser. L3778G is an example of a translucent mullite porcelain that will work for this.

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Made using porcelain fired to cone 11+. This is a splendid demonstration of translucency. Without a back-light it is just a white slab. But the varying thickness in the porcelain determine the amount of light that passes at any given spot, thus producing the design. An example of a recipe to produce a porcelain like this is L3778D.
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Bone China
A ceramic whose priorities are translucency, whiteness, fired strength and resistance to thermal shock failure. |
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Translucency
A highly sought-after property in porcelain, fired close enough to melting to take on the glass-like property of passing light. Translucency implies tendency to warp during firing. |
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