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What are examples of ceramic materials?

Posted at: 2015-01-07 
a list would be helpful.

Most commonly used ceramics:

NON TECHNICAL CERAMICS

- cement

- concrete

- brick ceramics

- tile ceramics

- porcelain

- terracotta

- ice

- spinel

- glasses

- granite

- limestone

- marble

- sandstone

- slate

TECHNICAL CERAMICS

- alumina

- alumina nitride

- beryllia

- bioglass

- boron carbide

- boron nitride

- calcium phosphate

- carbon/graphite

- chromic oxide

- cordierite

- diamond

- forsterite

- germanium

- Halite

- Lithium fluoride

- Magnesia

- Magnetic ferrites

- Molybdenum disilicide

- Mullite

- Niobide Carbide

- silicon

- silicon carbide

- silicon nitride

- steatite

- tantalum carbide

- thoria

- titanium carbide

- titanium diboride

- titanium dioxide

- tungsten carbide

- zirconia

- zirconium carbide

If you are looking for technical ceramics? then...

Alumina, used as stucture mateiral in industrial furnace, as they could with stand high temp and relatively cheaper.

Boron carbide, extremly hard and not heavy, could be used as bullet proof vest.

Silicon nitride, ceramic bearings

Zirconia, grinding media

There's a lot more pure and mixture materials.

Glass is the best example of ceramic materials

Porcelain dishes



Toilet bowl and tank



Many sinks



Many small figurines such as Hummel

a list would be helpful.