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How plastic a clay is determines how far and how much it can be stretched. For example you would want a clay with a some what height elasticity for wheel thrown pieces but, maybe not so much for sculpture. If a clays elasticity is not high it will crack or break when you try to stretch it
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How do you increase the plasticity of red clay?
Add bentonite to the clay body.
How do you increase clays plasticity?
Add bentonite to the clay body
What are the examples of plasticity?
the answer is plastics! -------------- Ex.: plasticine, clay, soils, bread, butter, etc.
What is an example of plasticity?
Ex.: plasticine, clay, soils, bread, butter, etc.
Difference between primary and secondary clay?
primary clay:- once formed from the parent rock deposited at origin, so less impurities,coarse particles,less humic acid , low plasticity& low shrinkage than 2ndry claysecondry clay:- 2ndry clay are transported and formed, so more impurities, fine particles, more humic,higher plasticity and shrinkage.
How does clay leaching affect pH?
Clay leaching do not affect pH
What are the types of clay?
Clay minerals are microscopic, platy particles, and which have variable plasticity when mixed with water. Some of the major groups of clays include types called illites, kandites, smectites, and vermiculites. They are mostly hydrous silicates.
What is 'plastic memory and how is it found in clay terms?
THE CLAY PARTICLEWhen we look at clay through an electron microscope, the clayparticles seen as a thin hexagonal plate, approximately 100times longer than it is thick. (Note: Richard Burkett hasplaced an image file of clay particles as seen under an electronmicroscope in another directory of the Ceramics Gopher at SDSU.)When we add the water of plasticity to the dry clay, moisturebetween the flat plates creates a surface tension attraction sothat the particles do not easily pull apart, but they slideeasily over one another. The flat shape of the clay particleand the surface tension when water is added gives the strengthand plasticity which we associate with clay in its workable state.* http://ceramics.sdsu.edu/articles/glaze_tech/basic_clays.html
Plasticity means what?
Plasticity means the ability to be shaped and molded.
Is plasticity a physical property or a chemical property?
Plasticity is a physical property.
What are facts about earthware clay?
Clay comes in the colours from a dull grey to an orangey red, this is because these are natural colours and clay would only come in natural colours in old greece, and Clays exhibit plasticity when mixed with water in certain proportions. The person who wrote the other answer is right but there are lots more facts about clay and if you type in to google clay facts, then lots of really good things will come up.
Does acid rain affect clay?
yes it can
