Creation of Glass & Clay Ceramics

GLASS CERAMICS: 1) Most the glass we use is soda-lime glass. made by melting a mixture of sand (silicon oxide), sodium carbonate and limestone, then allowing the molten liquid to cool and solidify 2) Borosilicate glass is made by heating sand with boron trioxide. Borosilicate glass has a much higher melting point than soda-lime glass CLAY CERAMICS: 1) include brick, china and porcelain. They are made by shaping wet clay and then heating it to a high temperature in a furnace, which causes crystals to form and join together 2) often coated with a glaze, which hardens on heating to form a hard, smooth, opaque and waterproof layer. This explains why they are often used for dinner plates and bowls