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- Candling. The lower temperature stage of some firing cycles used to complete the drying of the ware.
- Carbonizing The permanent staining of a ceramic material by the introduction of carbon particles during firing.
- Casting, slip casting
- Celadon Stoneware glazes containing iron which produce green, grey and grey-blue colours in reduction firing.
- Ceramic (W)
- China Clay Refers to Kaolin, which is the primary clay used for producing Porcelain.
- Chamotte (Grog) A ceramic material formed by the high temperature firing of a refractory clay, after which it is crushed and graded to size. Used as the a non-plastic component of some clay bodies. (W)
- Clay A group of hydrous aluminium phyllosilicate minerals. Often also used to refer to the clay body, which sometimes may only contain small amounts of clay minerals. (W)
- Clay body The material used to form the body of a piece of pottery. Thus a potter might order such an amount of earthenware body, stoneware body or porcelain body from a supplier of ceramic materials.
- Coiling A hand method of forming pottery by building up the walls with coils of rope-like rolls of clay.
- Cone, See pyrometric cone.
- Crackle glaze A glaze intentionally containing minute cracks in the surface.
- Crawling. A parting and contraction of the glaze on the surface of ceramic ware during drying or firing, resulting in unglazed areas bordered by coalesced glaze. (W)
- Crazing. A glaze fault characterised by the cracking of fired glazes and due to high tensile stresses. (W)
- Crock. synonym of pot. (W)
- Crocker. synonym of a potter, one who creates pottery (archaic). (W)
- Crockery. synonym of pottery. (W)
- Crystal glaze Glazes characterised by crystalline clusters of various shapes and colours embedded in a more uniform and opaque glaze
- china clay See Kaolin
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