8 WAYS CERAMIC IS USED IN MODERN, DAY-TO-DAY LIFE Do you think you come into contact with ceramic in your day-to-day life? We’ve put together a list of 8 ways ceramic is used in modern life, the obvious and the not so obvious. Take a read and you might just be surprised! THE OBVIOUS 1. Tiles Our roofs, bathrooms and kitchens are covered in ceramic tiles. Ceramic can be glazed with different colours and printed with any design, so tiles can be tailored to different people’s tastes. They are tough and easy to wipe clean once glazed which is perfect for use in the kitchen or bathroom! 2. Cookware Majority of crockery and pots are made from ceramic. From unglazed to glazed, mortar and pestles to the mug that holds your tea, ceramic is a staple material in the kitchen. Ceramic knives have also become common, they are one of the hardest knives you can buy yet are extremely lightweight! 3. Brick Our homes are made from brick and are held together by cement, both of which are types of ceramic...
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A brief history of ceramics 23,000–25,000 BCE: Earliest use of human ceramics (for example, in figurines of humans and other animals made of pottery, discovered at Dolní Věstonice in the Czech Republic). 14,000BCE: Ceramic tiles are being made in India and Mesopotamia. 18,000–14,000 BCE: Earliest use of pottery vessels (for example, in Jiangxi, China ). 7500–6500BCE: First use of mud bricks. 6000 BCE: Earliest known kiln (Yarim Tepe site in modern Iraq) 5000–8000 BCE: First use of glazes. Nile Valley of Egypt. According to [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PAZR-A9Ra6EC] 3500–5000BCE: Earliest use of glass (according to Eric Le Bourhis in Glass: Mechanics and Technology ). 3500–2500BCE: Invention of the potter's wheel . Mid-late 1900s: Development of effective glass and ceramic insulators for telegraphs and electric power distribution. 1940s: Development of ferrite magnets for such things as loudspeakers and electric motors. 1986: High-temperature s...

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