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2. Vitreous enamel - Wikipedia

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   Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C (1,380 and 1,560 °F). The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smooth, durable vitreous coating.

3. Vitreous china - Wikipedia

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   Vitreous china is an enamel coating that is applied to ceramics, particularly porcelain, after they have been fired, though the name can also refer to the finished piece as a whole. The coating makes the porcelain tougher, denser, and shinier, and it is a common choice for items such as toilets and sink basins. [1] [2] [3]

4. Industrial porcelain enamel - Wikipedia

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   The most important characteristic of porcelain enamel, from an industrial perspective, is its resistance to corrosion. [3] Mild steel is used in almost every industry and a huge array of products; porcelain enamel is a very economic way of protecting this, and other chemically vulnerable materials, from corrosion. It can also produce very ...

5. Pavlovsk Palace - Wikipedia

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   King Louis XVI presented them with four Gobelin tapestries, Marie Antoinette presented Maria Feodorovna with a sixty-piece toilet set of Sèvres porcelain, and they ordered more sets of porcelain and purchased statues, busts, paintings, furniture and paintings, all for Pavlovsk. While they traveled, they kept in contact almost daily with ...

6. A 900-year-old bowl just sold for $38 Million

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   A bowl made around 900 years ago has just fetched $38 million at auction, setting a new record for Chinese porcelain. The antique Chinese bowl was made around 900 years ago during the Song Dynasty ...

7. ‘Porcelain War’ Review: Affecting but Patchy Ukraine-Set ...

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   Fine porcelain figurines of woodland creatures, their bodies painted with whole bountiful pastel ecosystems, function as a hopeful, even redemptive symbolic counterpoint to the carnage and peril ...