Aardvark Clay
Terra Red w/ Barium Cone 5/6
Aardvark's Mid-Fire Clay Body, Cone 5/6 - STONEWARE
Item# 13524
MPN: Terra Red W/ Barium
Characteristics:
- A very warm orange-red terra cotta colored cone five stoneware.
- While the clay is textured, it feels very smooth while throwing or hand building.
- The blend of color, tooth, and workability you have been looking for.
- Barium is added to clay bodies in small amounts to prevent "scumming" or efflorescence, which is a white powdery deposit that can appear on the surface of fired ceramics by reacting with soluble salts present in the clay, essentially making those salts insoluble by forming barium sulfate.
- Fired Shrinkage is 12.5%
>when fired to cone 5.
- Water Absorption is 6%
Item# 13524
MPN: Terra Red W/ Barium
Characteristics:
- A very warm orange-red terra cotta colored cone five stoneware.
- While the clay is textured, it feels very smooth while throwing or hand building.
- The blend of color, tooth, and workability you have been looking for.
- Barium is added to clay bodies in small amounts to prevent "scumming" or efflorescence, which is a white powdery deposit that can appear on the surface of fired ceramics by reacting with soluble salts present in the clay, essentially making those salts insoluble by forming barium sulfate.
- Fired Shrinkage is 12.5%
>when fired to cone 5.
- Water Absorption is 6%
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