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Ceramic name the stone products received from mineral raw materials by formation and its roasting at heats. 123456
(The Term ' the ceramics ' occurs (on P.P.Budnikovu) from a word ' keramejja ' which in the Ancient Greece named art of manufacturing of products from clay. And now in ceramic technology use mainly clay, but along with them apply also other kinds of mineral raw materials, for example pure oxides (okisnaja technical ceramics). Ceramic materials are most ancient of all artificial stone materials. Crocks of rough pottery products find on a place of settlements of the Stone Age. Age of a clay brick as building material - about 5000 years. 123456
In modern building pottery applies almost in all constructive elements of buildings, facing and other materials use in modular housing construction. Riches of aesthetic possibilities of ceramics have provided to it a foreground in furnish of facades of buildings and internal premises. Ceramic porous fillers are a basis of progressive easy concrete. Sanitary-engineering products, ware from porcelain and faience widely use in a life. The special ceramics is necessary for chemical and an iron and steel industry (kislotoupornye and fire-resistant products), for the electroindustry and radio electronics (electroinsulators, semiconductors, etc.), apply it in rocket and other branches of new technics. 123456
The Soviet science in the field of ceramics has had development in A.I.Avgustinika, D.S.Beljankina, P.P.Budnikova, P.A.Zemjatchenskogo's works, etc. Ceramic building products depending on their structure divide on two basic groups: porous and dense. 123456
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