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check out iron red/cone 6

updated sun 4 mar 12

 

mel jacobson on sat 3 mar 12


this is amazing stuff.
At 10:32 AM 3/3/2012, Carol S. Marians wrote:
>Mel -
>
>On clayart you said send pix of iron-orange-red
>
>#4 in:
>http://carol.knighten.org/2011-11-24-leaf33/
>
>#1 in:
>
>http://carol.knighten.org/2011-12-20-leaf35/
>
>BTW this is electric at cone 6 - just got a copy of Weyl's classic book on
>colors in glass and ceramic glazes. Confirms what I'd known for some tim=
e -
>for iron red, reduction is irrelevant. At cone 11 where you fire, is even
>less relevant than at cone 6. Iron in silicate melts in 'automagically' i=
n
>the reduced state at high temperature, the higher the temperature the more=
it
>goes. Is pure chemistry.
>
>Do I got good iron colors or what?
>
>Carol

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