Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course!

    • THRILLED TO HAVE YOU HERE - Introduction
  • 2

    Week 1

    • TESTING GLAZES - Getting Testy

    • KEEPING CONTROL - Self Control

    • GLASS AND CRYSTALS - Pain in the Glass

    • SIDEBAR - Just a few random notes

    • BAD HABITS - The ruffling of the feathers begins...
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    Week 2

    • WHAT ARE CRYSTALLINE GLAZES? - What are glazes, is the better question...

    • CHEMISTRY 101 - Better living through chemistry

    • ATOMS... - Never trust

    • SIDEBAR - Material Science

    • PERIODICALLY - I have this talk...

    • MOLES - Get out your calculator

    • MOLAR EXTRACTION - This will be slightly less painful than a trip to the dentist
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    Week 3

    • MATERIAL BASICS - 'Cause we're living in a material world, and I am a materials...ceramicist

    • GEOLOGY - Rock Stars

    • SILICA - Very Sili

    • ALUMINA - Aluminia?

    • KAOLIN - Stacks on stacks

    • METALS AND EARTHS - The name of our heavy metal album
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    Week 4

    • FELDSPARS -Rock and Roll

    • ALKALI METAL CARBONATES - Carbon copies

    • Frits - Puttin' on the

    • ALKALINE EARTHS - Down to Earth

    • FLUX - Aeon?
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    Week 5

    • FORMULAIC - This story is totally predictable

    • SEGER - Temperature is chemistry and chemistry is temperature

    • UNITY MOLECULAR FORMULA - Cones and The

    • RUNNING CALCULATIONS

    • STULL - The better way

    • STULL DETAILS - The chemistry is in the...

    • LIMITS - Sidebar
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    Excel Sidebar

    • Adding Materials to the UMF Calculator

    • Goal Seek

    • Solver
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    Week 6

    • THE CRYSTALLIZATION ZONE - You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop…

    • FRIT FUNCTIONALITY - Perfect Frit

    • FRIT BACKGROUND - About Frit

    • CRYSTALLINE FRITS - Compare and Contrast

    • THE PHASE DIAGRAM - It is just a phase

    • WHY ARE CRYSTALS? - This is not a sentence
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    Week 7

    • REVIEWING RECIPES - Crystal clear

    • ALUMINA LEVELS - "Clay in your glaze will kill the crystals" - Everyone

    • ZINC LEVELS - "This glaze isn't right, so I'm going to tweak the Zinc" - Everyone

    • TEMPERATURE - "I fire to cone X" - Everyone "No you don't"- CMW

    • 3110 VS. 644 - Am I Boron-ing you?
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    Week 8

    • MAPPING - Star Maps

    • MAPPING 1270°C - Map Quest

    • MAPPING 1250°C - Map Quest 2 - The Questining

    • MAPPING 1260°C WITH COPPER - Map Quest 3-Return of the Crystals

    • 1.5 AND 2.0 SILICA AND TEMPERATURE - Compare and contrast

    • 1.5 SI - VARIABLE AL & TEMPERATURE

    • 2.0 SI - VARIABLE AL & TEMPERATURE - The same, but different

    • SIDEBAR - Calcined kaolin did what?

    • TEMPERATURE ARRANGEMENT - The same, but different, different

    • TEMPERATURE ARRANGEMENT - The same, but different, different, different
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    Week 9

    • SILICA AND FLAX RATIOS - Fiat Flux

    • ALKALI METAL FLUXES - Don't matter

    • TOTAL FLUX RATIOS - Various Si and Al

    • AM FLUXES AND ETCHING - Sketchy Situation

    • ION EXCHANGE - We return to our party, already in progress

    • ETCHING MAPPING - Cartography

    • ETCHING AM VS. AE - Totally Etchy

    • ALKALINE EARTHS AND CRYSTALLIZATION

    • 1246 °C v. 1266 °C - Running hot and cold

    • ZINC - CALCIUM TRANSITION - 2.0 Silica

    • ZINC - CALCIUM TRANSITION - 1.5 vs. 2.0 Silica

    • SILICA AND FLUX RATIOS - Repeat from last week

    • OTHER ALKALINE EARTH FLUXES - The other white flux
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    Week 10

    • TITANIUM AND PHASE SEPARATION - TiDi

    • TITANIUM AND CRYSTALLIZATION - Crystal Math

    • TITANIUM AND ZINC - Of course, crystalline glazes have to be different...

    • PUSH IT - Push it real good

    • MATTE CRYSTALLINE - I've heard all the Matt(e) jokes before...

    • MAPPING MATTE - Matting Map?

    • MATTE LEVELS - Spirit level

    • COLORANTS - Color run

    • COLORANT COMBINATIONS - Thanks to Marie Wright

    • STAINS AND SLIPS - Sub-terficial

    • THE EFFECT OF COPPER - Flux reactions

    • REDUCTION - Reductionist

    • CHROME - MOLYBDENUM - TUNGSTEN - The most uninformative segment of the entire class
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    Week 11

    • HOW TO LOWER TEMPERATURE - How low can you go?

    • LITHIUM CARBONATE - What Lithium Carb is and what it isn't

    • BORON - The get down

    • BORON AND DURABILITY - Boron FTW

    • BORON LEVELS - Boron Again

    • CONE 6 FLUX RATIO - The fightin' 6th!

    • CONE 6 CRYSTALLINE MAPPING - 0.22:0.78 (0.55 ZnO:0.23 CaO) - 0.12 Boron

    • ANTI-BORON - Remember how I've said not to use pure Alumina?

    • BRISTOL GLAZES - I Bristol at your suggestion...

    • BALANCING BRISTOL GLAZES - Balance to the force...

    • LEAH LEITSON CHUN - Breaking Good

    • BRISTOL IN CRYSTALLINE GLAZES - Bristol Crystal

    • BRISTOL & TOTAL FLUX RATIOS - Things get weird

    • ETCH-A-TEST - That etch you want to scratch
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    Week 12

    • APPLICATION - Apply yourself

    • GRAM WEIGHT IN ACTION - TC Staton in action

    • BISQUE - Biscuit

    • CLAY BODIES - The cornerstone of glaze application

    • WATER AND VISCOSITY - Water, water everywhere

    • NON-RUNNING CRYSTALLINE - Not gonna R-U-N-N-O-F-T

    • CRYSTALLINE EFFECTS - Wreckx-n-Effect

    • NON-ZINC CRYSTALS - Everything but the kitchen Zinc

    • EXPERIMENTS TO TRY - Blast off!

    • IN CONCLUSION - In conclusion
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