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quartz inversion text

updated fri 19 jan 01

 

PERRY STEARNS on thu 18 jan 01


In "Ceramic Science for the Potter" W G Lawrence, 1972, has a chapter =
"Firing" with charts and clear text on chemical and physical changes in =
Kaolinite, Silica, Feldspar, and Reactions in Clay-Flint-Feldspar =
Bodies. In the last, he follows the firing degree by degree. Then adds =
Other Factors Affecting the Maturing of Bodies
and closes with Firing Defects. It is not written to show off but to =
inform. pp111-127 incl. biblio. Fran Stearns