The paper overviews the origin and development of ceramics from the firing of natural clays to the creation of technical ceramics and advanced structural and functional materials, including nonoxide ceramics with unique components.
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Nevertheless, it should be noted that natural silicon carbide was found in a meteorite crater, where, in all probability, this compound was synthesized when a carbonaceous meteorite collided with the Earth.
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Translated from Poroshkovaya Metallurgiya, Vol. 51, No. 7–8 (486), pp. 151–159, 2012.
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Gnesin, G.G. Revisiting the history of materials science on the origin and development of ceramic technology. Powder Metall Met Ceram 51, 496–501 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11106-012-9460-z
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