Enamels Glazing slip

In ceramics algin provides plasticity and acts as a binder and water-holding agent in fire clay mortar and ceramic bodies (55). In enamel and glaze slips it controls flow and body. 

The formula was established for slop glazes by A. Brongniart (Traiti des Arts Ciramiques, Vol.l, p.249,1854). Brookfield Viscometer. An electrically operated rotating cylinder viscometer in which the drag is recorded directly on a dial it has been used in the testing of vitreous-enamel slips (/. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 31,18,1948). 

Overspray. (1) In the application, by spraying, of enamel slip to base-metal or of slop glaze to ceramic whiteware, that proportion of slip or glaze that is not deposited on the ware it is normally collected for re-use. 

Viscosity. The viscosity of a true ( Newtonian ) liquid is the ratio of the shearing stress to the rate of shear, of which the viscosity itself is independent this is not generally true of clay slips, vitreous-enamel slips, or glaze suspensions, all of which exhibit... 

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