Majority of us are always in confusion between these two materials. What else do we need to prefer Glass or ceramics?
If you people have to buy crockery or other items, then these two always put us in a vague situation. Glass and ceramics have their properties which we are going to list out on this blog. By reading this blog, all non-chemical students are also going to know about preferable materials through various aspects. Check it out following and do tell us either this one is helpful for you or not
We all know glass has been classified into various types. You would come across several glass types that are used in multiple forms.
1. Annealed Glass
2. Coated Glass
3. Toughened Glass
4. Patterned Glass
5. Extra Clear Glass
These are the main types of the glass, so we will illustrate the brief introduction of this to get to know about them.
This type of glass is quite common with fused silica and it is used in various products. You might have come across such glass in double-glazed windows. For further advancement, annealed glass provides us beginning to go further.
Various surface coatings are available on the market just to enhance the appearance. Such Glass has a particular type of reflection and scratch resistance property.
Toughened glass is derived from the annealed glass through thermal tempering process. It has numerous applications in several industries like buildings, automobiles, transportation and other areas.
This type of glass is flat which is similar to a regular pattern. Patterned glass applies to numerous variations of decorative ornaments. It is used in such areas where transparency is not required. It displays most embossed patterns.
This type of glass is different from other glass types because of the raw material formation. Glass manufacturing process is made up of low iron content to minimise the sun reflection. The further coating can be applied to the low-iron glass for excellent clarity.
It can be moulded into various shapes and produce whatever type of product you want to form you would get the best end product
It is low in temperature resistant
Ideal for decorative ornaments
Waterproof
Doesn’t get rust like other materials
One of the expensive Material
It would break quickly
Easily Melted at high temperature
Pieces are quite sharp that can hurt easily
Glass has different properties it is clear, Fragile, solid, stiff and efficiently conducts heat. Glass was originated from sand, soda ash and lime. Yes, these three materials form glass, when these are melted and mixed at high temperature. The best thing about this material it can be shaped in many ways many ways. Common glass formation process is blowing, pressing and drawing. Usually, glass containers and other baking trays are developed by the pressing method. Different glass methods are used to create different products. Do you know drawing methods shaped glass and windows? Glass is quite useful because it is used information of various products like lenses, window panes, and windscreens of cars, kitchenware and other items.
Well, Ceramic is one of the best material that can be mixed with water for creating doh. It can be easily moulded and then shaped into various useful items. Ceramics is cost-effective and most famous for kitchenware. This one is heat resistant, and only ceramics makes majority watches
It has extremely high melting point
Hardness is at extreme
Cost effective material
Easy Available
Low density
Low coefficient Friction
Ceramic Disadvantages
Fragile in tension
Poor Resistance
Can crack when knocked by heavy items.
Ceramics is applicable in various products. If we take a look at its properties ten ceramics are quite hard and brittle. It is wear-resistant and robust, also have high elastic modulus. It has high thermal expansion and nonmagnetic. Let me add one thing here; ceramic can’t be disposed of after fired up. Yes, this one is understood once it will fire up then it can’t be disposed of, but it can be transformed into other products. Properties of ceramic are making this material different from others. In earlier days, it was made from clay as you have come across various objects. Later on, these ceramics were painted and fired into the smooth surface so ceramic was derived from pottery process. These days’ technical ceramics are covering multiple industrial, mechanical and thermal properties and other combinations. Ceramic is lighter than glass because of porous. One of the good thermal insulator.
These are the main comparison where we have illustrated ceramics advantages, disadvantages, properties and other features. Similarly, we described glass properties, merits and demerits and different types of glass to let you know what is available in current market.
