Ceramics In The Workplace

Acers 122 nd annual meeting monday october 5 2020 10 11 a m.

Ceramics in the workplace. An alternate make up cleanup date midterm and final will also be schedule for the unforeseen emergency. Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard durable form. Industrial ceramics ceramics are broadly defined as inorganic nonmetallic materials that exhibit such useful properties as high strength and hardness high melting temperatures chemical inertness and low thermal and electrical conductivity but that also display brittleness and sensitivity to flaws as practical materials they have a history almost as old as the human race. Failure to participate in studio cleanups results in a grade for the semester course being withheld.

Join us for acers annual business meeting held online this year from the safety of your home or workplace. Get involved in your society and get your questions answered. The word ceramic comes from the greek keramos meaning clay ceramic objects have been made by human cultures throughout the world for almost 5 000 years. The definition of pottery used by the american society.

Ceramics are objects made from shaping clay and other raw materials through the process of pottery. Similarly continual microwave reheating e g. Many cases of lead poisoning and even some fatalities have occurred from the leaching of lead from lead glazed pottery. Acidic liquids are of particular concern.