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The ceramics industry is broadly based encompassing all types of glass, whitewares such as porcelain and pottery, structural clay materials, refractories, abrasives, etc. Increasing use of advanced ceramic materials in the automotive and aerospace industries, as well as in such diverse areas as electronics and medical devices, will push the demand for raw materials far beyond that associated with the traditional ceramics industry.
Prepared directly from manufacturers' data sheets and tables at no cost to, nor influence from, the contributing companies, this handbook provides chemical and physical properties data for more than 1,000 products supplied by the 181 ceramic raw material suppliers in the U.S. and Canada who responded to requests for information. The products are divided into 116 categories according to the product designation used by the supplier.
Part I is an alphabetical listing of 99 raw materials and comprises the major portion of the book. The raw material suppliers are listed alphabetically under each category heading along with their product information. Part II contains category listings of additives, semiprocessed materials, some of which are available as unfinished shapes or substrates, and also materials intended for specific end uses.
In using this book, the reader should be aware of the following: (1) There may be an overlap in some of the categories, so all related listings should be investigated. (2) Some of the suppliers are distributors for imported raw materials and have included product data sheets with foreign spellings and the European use of commas instead of decimals in percentages. (3) The suppliers' data sheets may have been edited because of space restrictions. In general, packaging, storage, and handling information have not been included. It is assumed that the reader will contact the supplier for complete information on a product which is of interest. The technical information provided here is typical but does not indicate any warranty.
The table of contents provides a complete list of all the product tables. A Suppliers Address Listing and Index is included at the end of the book.
Advanced composition and production methods developed by Noyes Publications are employed to bring this durably bound book to you in a minimum of time. Special techniques are used to close the gap between "manuscript" and "completed book." In order to keep the price of the book to a reasonable level, it has been partially reproduced by photooffset directly from the original material and the cost saving passed on to the reader. Due to this method of publishing, certain portions of the book may be less legible than desired