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A Secret of Chinese Porcelain Manufacture
Author(s) -
Weiss Armin
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.196306971
Subject(s) - kaolinite , intercalation (chemistry) , materials science , key (lock) , composite material , computer science , metallurgy , chemistry , computer security , inorganic chemistry
The secret of old Chinese porcelain is the technique by which a material, capable of forming extremely thin‐walled articles, was obtained from a slightly plastic kaolin. Intercalation compounds, which form by treating kaolinite with decaying urine, give the key to the preparation of this material.