Porcelain is a compound material, ceramic in nature which is made by heating clay with some other raw materials in a kiln to temperature of about 12000C. Porcelain is translucent in nature and it name is derived from the Italian language. Due to the translucent nature of the material, it has gained widespread use in the pottery industry to make kitchen ware and some other materials mainly of prestige 1.
The use of porcelain can be traced back to the 4th century in China and Japan. It started off as just pottery but with time, it gained popularity to a point that ...