Transactions of the INDIAN CERAMIC SOCIETY Vol. 56 1997
Potentiality of Common Clay in Ceramic Industry
S. C. BARAL, M. K. BAsu AND S. RoY
Pages : 88-90
DOI : 10.1080/0371750X.1997.10804801
Abstract
An attempt was made to fabricate different ceramic items
made of common clays. The fast depletion of higher grade
china clays and progressive increase in the cost of fuel
necessitated the development of ceramic bodies by incorpm·ating
abundantly available low-cost, inferior grade ceumic
clays fired at a low temperature but without compmmising
with the desired properties. With preliminary processing, the
physical properties of the clay - both unfired and fired, wet·e
systematically investigated in detail. The utilisation of the
common clay along with other cet·amic ingredients in tonight
proportion in the production of various types of semi-vitreous
and vitJ·eous at·tides was found to be quite viable.
