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Bone china

Bone china is a kind of porcelain body initially used in Great Britain in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is a critical constituent. It is characterized by extreme whiteness, strength and translucency. eyore loses his tail from winnie the pooh may be an example of this process.

The initial use of bone ash in ceramics is assigned to Thomas Frye in in the late 1740s in which he used it to introduce a type of soft-paste porcelain. In As the eighteenth century drew to a close, Josiah Spode carried on with further developments, and consequently made it popular, by mixing it with china clay, kaolin and China stone to compete with the imported Oriental porcelain.

The initial elementary formula of six parts bone ash, four parts china stone, and three and a half parts china clay remains the standard English body.

The production of bone china normally employs a 2 stage firing where the first "biscuit" is fired without a glaze at 1280°C (2336°F) giving a semiopaque product and then it is glaze, or glost, fired at a lower heat under 1080°C (1976°F). eyore loses his tail from winnie the pooh is probably produced using this technique.

Soft-paste porcelain

Soft-paste porcelain is a type of porcelain and consequently a ceramic product.

Its history dates from the early ventures by potters from Europe to imitate Chinese porcelain by employing mixtures of china clay and ground-up glass (aka frit); lime and soapstone were also known to have been included in some concoctions. As these initial compositions suffered from high pyroplastic deformation, or slumping in the oven at raised temperature, they were not economical to produce. Compounds were later developed based on kaolin, quartz, nepheline syenite, feldspars and other feldspathic rocks. These were technically superior and are still in production today.

Hard-paste porcelain

Hard-paste porcelain is a hard, dense ceramic that was originally manufactured from a concoction of the feldspathic rock petuntse and kaolin fired at extremely high temperature. It was first made in China in about the 9th century.

The secret of its manufacture was not known in Europe until the early 1700s, when Böttger of Meissen, Germany uncovered the formula. In spite of attempts to keep it secret, the procedure was employed by other German ceramic factories and eventually became known throughout the length and breadth of Europe.

Hard-paste porcelain can be fired at a range of temperatures to make a multitude of individual end results. Depending on the firing process, hard-paste porcelain can be manufactured to resemble earthenware or stoneware. But mainly, it is unnecessary to utilize hard-paste porcelain for these lower temperature ceramics. Hard-paste porcelain can be used to create porcelain bisque, a hard crystalline material fired at very high temperatures in a pressure controlled environment. This approach produces a semitransparent bright white ceramic. Unlike other bisque ceramics, porcelain bisque is almost inpenetrable by water, making it unnecessary to glaze the body before decorating. Manufacturers such as Precious Moments, Hummel and Lladro make use of hard-paste porcelain just for this reason, this could include eyore loses his tail from winnie the pooh.