Clay
material
A plastic rock that hardens when fired.
Where it is used
- Pottery — is material for. Vessels are shaped from clay.
- Brick — is material for. Bricks are moulded from clay.
- Cuneiform — is used in. The signs were pressed into wet clay.
- Tandoor — is material for. Clay.
- Roof tile — is material for. Clay.
- Oven — is material for. Baking ovens were shaped from clay.
- Spindle — is material for. The spindle whorl was shaped from clay or carved from stone.
- Kiln — is material for. Kilns were built of clay.
- Warp-weighted loom — is material for. The warp threads were tensioned with clay weights.
- Oil lamp — is material for. Later — clay ones.
- Spinning top — is material for. Or shaped from clay.
- Levee — is material for. Levees were built up of earth and clay.
- Dam — is material for. The core of the dam is clay and earth.
- Doll — is material for. And shaped from clay.
- Plumbing — is material for. Minoan plumbing used ceramic pipes.
- Bloomery — is material for. A bloomery is a clay shaft.
- Qanat — is material for. Weak sections of a qanat were reinforced with clay rings.
- Yo-yo — is material for. Greek yo-yos were terracotta.
- Incubator — is material for. Egyptian incubators were clay chambers.
- Grenade — is material for. Medieval grenades were ceramic vessels.
- Movable type — is material for. Bi Sheng’s type was made of fired clay.
What it is a kind of
- Kaolin — includes. Kaolin is a white clay used to make porcelain.