How to use clay in a sentence.
Clay ceramics definition.
Once heated fired to between 660 and 1470 f 350 and 800 c the clay is converted to ceramic and will never dissolve again.
For example clay has chemically bonded water in it which will cause it to slake down disintegrate when a dried clay object is put in water.
It becomes plastic when moist but hardens on heating and is used in the manufacture of bricks cement ceramics etcrelated adjective.
Common examples are earthenware porcelain and brick.
Figuline earth or mud in general.
Technically ceramics are those things made from materials which are permanently changed when heated.
A ceramic is any of the various hard brittle heat resistant and corrosion resistant materials made by shaping and then firing a nonmetallic mineral such as clay at a high temperature.
The crystallinity of ceramic materials ranges from highly oriented to semi crystalline vitrified and often completely amorphous.