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IROXR
Red iron oxide is ferric oxide, ground fine enough to give an even colour rather than specks. What it gives…
COOXR
Red copper oxide is cuprous oxide, and it carries more copper per gram than any other copper addition we stock.…
ZIRC
Zircopax is milled zircon, and the usual way a glaze is made white and opaque. The particles stay suspended in…
COOXB
Black copper oxide is the more concentrated of the two commonest copper additions, carrying more copper per gram than the…
TIOX
Tin oxide is the opacifier that turns a glaze white. Part of it dissolves into the melt, so how much…
COOX
Cobalt oxide is a black powder that fires blue, and the more concentrated of the two cobalt powders a recipe…
TIDI
Titanium dioxide dissolves into a glaze melt and crystallises again as the kiln cools, and it is those crystals that…
COPCA
Copper carbonate is the main source of green and turquoise in glazes, and it colours slips as well. It is…
SICA
Silicon carbide is a synthetic grit that reduces a glaze from the inside. A very small amount brings copper reds…
COCA
Cobalt carbonate is the usual source of blue in pottery, and cobalt is the strongest of the colouring oxides —…
CHOX
Chrome oxide is a green colouring oxide for glazes and slips, and a strong one — a trace of it…
TASI
Talc is a hydrated magnesium silicate, and the softest mineral there is. It is the flux most low-fire white bodies…
CRYO
Cryolite is sodium aluminium fluoride, an insoluble source of soda that melts at a very low temperature. It goes into…
GUMC
Gum CMC is a cellulose gum that thickens a glaze and binds the dried layer to the pot. It is…
COST
Cornish stone substitute blends feldspar, quartz and kaolin into a secondary flux for glazes, clay bodies and engobes. It melts…
STCA
Strontium carbonate is an active flux at middle and high temperatures, where it thins the melt and smooths the surface.…
BOHY
Borax hydrous is a water-soluble source of boron, the oxide that gets low-fire glazes melting. Because it dissolves, it is…
SPOD
Spodumene is a lithium mineral that carries its alumina and silica with it, so it goes into a recipe as…
BOAS
Bone ash is a calcium phosphate, and the material bone china is named for. A small addition to a glaze…
RAVSLIP
Ravenscrag Slip is a light-coloured, low-iron silty clay that melts to a glaze at cone 10 with nothing added but…
SOAS
Soda ash is sodium carbonate, and in ceramics it goes mostly into a casting slip as a deflocculant. A very…