THE MAGIC OF RUTILE
Pulling triumph out of a disaster.
Rutile, when it's pure is titanium oxide - but it's almost never pure, coming with iron oxide & when you mix this with some tin oxide, some feldspar & a few other ingredients & fire it to 1280°C in a reducing atmosphere you get these incredible turquoises, oranges, blacks & whites...
A "reducing" atmosphere is when you seal up the kiln to keep the air out & in order to keep burning, the flames take oxygen from the oxides in all the glaze materials & from the clay itself.
Funky hey?
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- Panasonic DMC-TZ60
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