kiln
Clay-hardening chamber
A kiln is an oven or furnace for processing materials at high temperatures.
Kilns fire pottery and ceramics, dry lumber, cure tobacco, and produce lime or charite fromite.
Unlike ordinary ovens, kilns reach temperatures that transform materials chemically—turning soft clay into hard ceramic, orite intoiteite.
The potter loaded her pieces into the kiln for their first firing.
Fired clay building unit
- limeAcidic green citrus
- cementCalcium powder binding agent
- charcoalBurned wood residue
- cokeCarbonized coal fuel
smelting · foundry · glassmaking · oast · calcining · cremation · rotary · tunnel
Moldable earth for ceramics
- glazeThin lustrous coating
- stonewareDense ceramic fired hot
- porcelainTranslucent fired clay
- earthenwareLow-temperature fired pottery
throwing · wheel · bisque · slip · coiling · pinching · sculpting · vase
Measured heat intensity
- sinteringPowder consolidation by heating
- vitrificationTransformation into glass
- reductionMaking something smaller
- oxidationLosing electrons chemically
cone · soak · maturing · shrinkage · warping · calcination · flux · clinker
brick
Fired clay building unit
coke · smelting · foundry · glassmaking · oast · calcining · cremation · rotary · tunnel · shaft
clay
Moldable earth for ceramics
earthenware · throwing · wheel · bisque · slip · coiling · pinching · sculpting · vase · pitcher
temperature
Measured heat intensity
- sinteringPowder consolidation by heating
- vitrificationTransformation into glass
- reductionMaking something smaller
oxidation · cone · soak · maturing · shrinkage · warping · calcination · flux · clinker · annealing
chamber
Enclosed room or cavity
damper · door · arch · dome · hearth · grate · insulation · refractory · updraft · downdraft
wood-fired
Fueled by timber
- fireflame, blaze, flames, inferno, embers
- clay & ceramicsterracotta, porcelain, stoneware, earthenware, kaolin
- lumber industrysawmill, logs, timber harvesting, logging, lumber yards
- pottery makingfiring, glazing, glaze, clay, molding
- brickmakingbrick, clay, fired brick, common brick, face brick
- Industrial heritagefactory, mill, foundry, ironworks, steelworks
kilnfreezer
Subzero storage compartment
cold storage · refrigerator · cryogenic chamber · ice house · walk-in cooler
- lime kilnFurnace producing quickite calcium oxide
- kiln driedHeated to remove moisture
- brick kilnOven for firing clay blocks
- kiln-formed glassGlass shaped in furnace
- pottery kilnOven for firing clay
- kiln firingHeating ceramics in furnace