CERAMICS
Ceramics are materials made from clay, mud or cement.
Ceramics are all products made from baked clay and are mostly mixtures of clay with other materials. These other materials include feldspar, silica, sillimanite and many others. A common way to identify them is that they shatter into pieces when dropped.
Clay exists naturally in many parts of the world. When it is wet, it can easily be molded into different shapes and sizes. We use clay to mould various objects like storage pots, cooking pots and dishes. We use mud to construct support for cooking pots, to build houses and also to make bricks for building houses. We make cement blocks that we use for building houses by mixing sand and cement to get typical shape. All the above solid objects made from clay, mud or cement are called ceramics.
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