Dremel 876 Specifications download pdf (Page 27)

Absorption - The ability of a porous object such as plaster or

bisque, to absorb water; the amount of moisture that will soak

into an item.

Accenting - Emphasizing a portion of a design with highlights. A

brighter color; outlining or partial outlining.

Added Spare - Cylinder of metal or plastic used to increase the

volume of slip a mold can contain.

Aesthetic Center - A point in a picture that is just off of dead

center.

Aging - Letting newly mixed slip or clay set for a prescribed time

(days or weeks) without disturbing it. Allows the slip and clay

time to blend and align the clay particles properly.

Air Brush - A spray gun used for applying glaze or color with the

use of compressed air. Available in several varieties for work

ranging from overall coverage to fine detail. Use care and proper

safety equipment when air brushing.

Airlock - An air bubble which can interfere with the delivery of

color through an airbrush or prevent slip from draining from a mold.

Alcohol, Wood - A solvent for cleaning blanks prior to overglaze

decoration, or to clean your brushes with dried acrylic in them.

Alumina - One of the essential ingredients in all clay and glazes.

Makes clays plastic and gives glazes their stiffness, preventing the

glaze from running.

Analogous - Similar or comparable in certain respects; in color,

neighboring colors on the color wheel.

Annealing - To hold at a specific temperature to prevent cracking.

Glass must be annealed.

Antiquing - Wiping down applied color, leaving a darker tone in

the crevices to accent details; to give an antique look to an object.

Applique - To apply some material decoration to ware: lace,

yarn, clay, etc.

Backing - Paper on which decals are mounted.

Balance - The equal ratio of objects and/or color on two halves of

a picture.

Ball Mill - A porcelain jar filled with flint pebbles and rotated

with either a wet or dry charge of chemicals. It is used to grind

and blend clays and glaze ingredients.

Bands - Rubber bands or adjustable straps used to keep the

sections of a mold from opening during the pouring process.

Banding Wheel - A turntable, operated by hand or electricity, to

facilitate decoration or hand building.

Bar - Type of pyrometric cone used to measure the heat work in a

kiln and then allows the kiln sitter to operate.

Binder - Gum Arabic used to make glazes adhere to the ware.

Bisque - Ceramics that have been fired to the maturing point of

the clay.

Bisque, Soft - Ceramics that have been fired to Cone 018 to give

added strength or to set a color. Clay is still workable but can not

go back into solution.

Blistering - Bubbles on a ceramic glaze surface.

Blunger - A container with an agitator for mixing slip.

Body - Refers to the basic material used to make up a piece. The

clay. The body can be a mixture of material such as talc, clays,

flint, feldspars and others. Bodies ore often described by their

composition, as a porcelain body, a white ware (talc) casting body,

a jiggering body, a shale body.

Bone China - Clay to which bone ash has been added for translu-

cency. Fine china tableware.

Bone dry - Greenware that is completely dry,

containing no moisture.

Boxing - Firing two cups or bowls on top of each other, rim to

rim, to prevent warping.

Brush Cleaner - Type of soap used to clean brushes; removes

color and conditions the brush.

Burnish - To polish; term refers to a type of fired gold luster that

has to be burnished to achieve its true color.

Burnishing Brush - A type of brush containing glass fibers

bound together in a cylinder; used to burnish Roman Gold luster.

Burnishing Sand - A very fine textured English sand used to

polish Roman Gold Luster.

Camel Hair - Term used for a very soft brush, usually made of

squirrel or pony hair. Name comes from the man who made the brush.

Casting - The art of pouring slip in a plaster mold; also the object

thus formed.

Casting Slip - A liquid clay used for casting a mold.

Center of Gravity - The point that would be reached at the base of

an object if a weighted line could be dropped from the top center.

Ceramics - In broad terms, any type of clay that is fired into a

permanent shape in a kiln. Any fired body.

China - A translucent body, usually imported.

China Blanks - Usually refers to commercially made white

undecorated china used for china painting.

China Painting - Decoration of china using a type of overglaze

colors and enamels.

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