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A detailed description of the individual components and minerals utilised in the raw materials of porcelain manufacture such as sand, smalt, borax, alum, ball clay, kaolin, soaprock, steatite, pearl ash, alabaster, flints and flint glass is followed by a consideration of the influence of the high temperatures in the kilns and their conversion into different mineral components. For example, the creation of new minerals such as wollastonite, whitlockite, mullite and sanidine in porcelains fired to temperatures in excess of 1300 °C, typical of the Swansea and Nantgarw kilns.
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Edwards, H.G.M. (2018). Components of Porcelain Manufacture. In: Nantgarw and Swansea Porcelains. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77631-6_4
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