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Caption: Dedication - Ceramic Engineering Dedication
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Department of Ceramic Engineering UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CERAMICS '"pHE term "ceramics" (Grk. Kipapos, keramos, related to a Sanskrit word meaning "to burn") was formerly employed to designate that portion of the plastic arts which embraces the production and decoration of all objects formed by the molding, modeling and baking of clay. In this sense it is, therefore, practically synonymous with the word ' * clay-working. ** As used in connection with modern industry, however, the term "ceramics" has gradually acquired a much wider significance than this, and is now generally applied to the technology of practically all of the earthy or non-metallic minerals; that is, to the technology of nearly all mineral products except ores, and minerals of organic origin. The ceramic industries thus embrace the manufacture of all kinds of clay products, such as stoneware, china and porcelain ware, brick, tile, sewer pipe and terra cotta; Portland cement, dental cements, lime, plaster, stucco and a variety of gypsum products, and special cements; all of the many varieties of glass and glassware, fused silica and magnesia ware; enameled metals and sanitary ware; a variety of electrical and thermal insulating materials; talc, chalk and slate products; abrasive materials, such as finely divided silica and carborundum and alundum products; rare earth products, such as mantels and tips for gas burners; bricks, crucibles and other Nine
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