Ceramics

NGT order: 150 ceramic units in Morbi cluster face permanent closure threat

There would be impact on these employees as well as auxiliary units, too. The spectre of permanent closure hangs over nearly 150 units in India’s largest ceramic cluster near Morbi town in Gujarat due to a recent order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to shut all these units that …

Shrinking ceramic

GENERALLY, the laws of physics are very rigid, but this one is found to be rather flexible. It is a well established theory that a material expands on heating. The reason for this thermal expansion is the violent increase registered in the vibrations of atoms or molecules of the material …

Bending ceramic

Malleable and bendable ceramic materials have been developed in Saarbrucken, Germany. Deutchland (No I 9/10). Scientists at the Saarbrucken's Institute for New Industrial Material have recently developed what they refer to as 'nano powder'. It consists of almost unimaginably small ceramic particles, billions of which would fit on the head …

Shaping better

German researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute For Ceramic Technologies, have developed a 'hot moulding' technique for moulding thermoplastics. According to the scientists, this technology is simpler and cheaper than injection mould- ing. The technique involves mixing ceramic powder with waxes and paraffins that melt at low temperatures. The concoction is …

Material in, metal out

Researchers from Calcutta have managed to develop a new ceramic that boasts of properties which could ultimately mean the replacement of conventional metallic parts used in refractories and engines. The material which is called 'sialon' ceramic', has been developed by a team of scientists led by Siddartha Bandopadhyay from the …

Return to glaze

Traditional Indian potters fig" 14 extinction today due to their ig rance of improved technology ceramics and poor financial cod tion. However, now any good op, lity clay available to potters all co the country at throw-away o could be used to produce glazed 0 tery that bears a huge …

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