Ceramic raw materials are silicate minerals taken from nature

Ceramic, English is china. The Chinese invented pottery as early as about 8000-2000 BC (Neolithic Age). Pottery made of clay is called pottery, and pottery made of porcelain is called porcelain. Ceramic is the general term for pottery, crockery and porcelain. The ancients called ceramics cymbals. Clay and porcelain clay, two different properties of clay, are used as raw materials, and the utensils made through the process of ingredients, molding, drying, baking and other processes can be called ceramics.

Ceramic English (or China); ceramic pinyin Táocí; ceramics are a variety of products made of natural clay and various natural minerals as the main raw material after crushing, mixing, molding and calcining. In the past, people made ceramic pottery and fired them in high temperature in a special kiln called ceramics. Ceramics is a general term for pottery and porcelain. The traditional concept of ceramics refers to all artificial industrial products using inorganic non-metallic minerals such as clay. It includes various products made from clay or a mixture containing clay by kneading, forming, and calcining. From the roughest earthenware to the finest fine pottery and porcelain. For its main raw material, silicate minerals (such as clay, quartz, etc.) taken from nature, so it belongs to the "silicate industry" category with glass, cement, enamel, refractory and other industries.