Questions tagged [ceramics]
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Type of British porcelain invented around 1917-1918
Being subscribed already for 30 years on Scientific American, I recently downloaded the whole archive, and I am now going through 1914-1918.
In the 26 January 1918 issue, on page 95, there is a small ...
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Could the presence of multiple stabilizer oxides induce sluggish diffusion in a stabilized zirconia to increase lifetime?
The presence of yttria stabilizes zirconia's high temperature allotropes, but it also decreases the lifetime due to more defects that can induce more diffusion into yttria rich and poor regions, ...
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Would fluorides stabilize zirconia?
The reason for zirconia's cubic and tetragonal phases not being stable is that the cation-anion ratio is too small for proper contact between ions.
One way is to use other oxides that have a bigger ...
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How to chemically remove niobium from boron carbide?
Previously I asked about chemical removal of CaO from boron carbide. I keep considering some refractory materials for use as sacrificial ones, so now I wonder if and how a layer of niobium (about 1.5 ...
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How to chemically remove CaO from boron carbide?
Previously I asked (How to remove graphite substrate of boron carbide coating?) how to chemically remove a thick layer of graphite from a thin layer of boron carbide. It turned out that was a hard ...
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Can a colorant be mixed into zirconia powder?
I’m wanting to color zirconium dioxide into beads after it is fired but I would like to get more colors than just white and the high temperature black oxide. Can I mix other metal oxides to zirconium ...
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