Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating clay-type materials to high temperatures. It includes clay in the form of kaolinite. Bone china is soft-paste porcelain made from bone ash and kaolinite. The raw materials for porcelain are when mixed with water and form a plastic paste.Click to see full answer. In this way, what is so special about porcelain?Porcelain and fine china have many of the same properties—both are porous and vitreous—but it’s the firing process that makes them different. Porcelain fires at a higher temperature and fine china is softer in texture and fires at a lower temperature, around 2,192 F/1,200 C. Porcelain is also more durable.Also, what is porcelain made of? Porcelain is traditionally made from two essential ingredients: kaolin, also called china clay, a silicate mineral that gives porcelain its plasticity, its structure; and petunse, or pottery stone, which lends the ceramic its translucency and hardness. Similarly one may ask, what is the purpose of porcelain? Porcelain is used for tableware, decorative objects, laboratory equipment, and electrical insulators. It was developed by the Chinese in the 7th or 8th century. True or hard-paste porcelain is made of kaolin (white china clay) mixed with powdered petuntse (feldspar) fired at about 1400°C (2550°F).Where does the best porcelain come from?Porcelain was first made in China—in a primitive form during the Tang dynasty (618–907) and in the form best known in the West during the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368). This true, or hard-paste, porcelain was made from petuntse, or china stone (a feldspathic rock), ground to powder and mixed with kaolin (white china clay).
