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Raigon-Pichardo, M., Garcia-Ramos, G. Sanches-Soto, P. J. 1996. Characterisation of a waste washing solid product of mining granitic tin-bearing sands and its application as ceramic raw material. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 17, 109-124. 

Ceramic types belonging to the Early Late Prehistoric Clemson Island and Owasco types are often used to document and reconstmct interaction patterns in north-central Pennsylvania. Despite efforts to do so, the high degree of stylistic similarity between these ceramics often makes it difficult to distinguish between types limiting their use in interaction studies. In this study, trace element analysis was employed to determine if compositional profiles correspond with identified ceramic types. The study suggests that there is no clear distinction between ceramic types and exploited clay deposits. Instead, differences in the technological attributes of thes pots may reflect the location of sites to material resource zones. 

In this brief review we illustrated on selected examples how combinatorial computational chemistry based on first principles quantum theory has made tremendous impact on the development of a variety of new materials including catalysts, semiconductors, ceramics, polymers, functional materials, etc. Since the advent of modem computing resources, first principles calculations were employed to clarify the properties of homogeneous catalysts, bulk solids and surfaces, molecular, cluster or periodic models of active sites. Via dynamic mutual interplay between theory and advanced applications both areas profit and develop towards industrial innovations. Thus combinatorial chemistry and modem technology are inevitably intercoimected in the new era opened by entering 21 century and new millennium. 

RocTec stabilization is a process to transform incinerator ash and other materials into small briquettes, which are then sintered to increase their strength, make them leach resistant, and reduce their volume. A ceramic stabilization process, it is applicable for metal oxide matrices containing metals designated as toxic under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act... 

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ARCILLA RESEARCH is a small, Dutch-based, technology enterprise which has developed a special body of techniques and materials based on a mineral binder system, whereby products with ceramic-like properties are cured rather than fired. In partnership with industry, university and government institutions, Arcilla is developing innovative products and systems to meet high technical specifications and which impact upon the environment, physical resources and mass needs. The mineral binder system and range of new materials are neither cements nor ceramics yet offer many of the advantages of both. Three units have... 

As technology advances, the need for improved performance from materials increases. There is also a continuing economic pressure to minimise costs, which will become increasingly difficult as resources become depleted. Thus, research is aiming at more efficient corrosion protection methods such as improved formulations for paints and corrosion inhibitors, improved metal alloys, better design, and the use of novel materials such as ceramics and plastics. 

One of the more obvious examples of this interaction involves the addition of temper to a clay matrix (temper may be another clay, but is more often a nonplastic material). The effect of tempering varies a relatively pure material, such as quartz, may reduce elemental concentrations in a ceramic paste by a constant proportion (49). Addition of other kinds of temper or clay will result in a complex relationship of dilution and enrichment (14, 25, 50). Because elemental concentrations in sediments vary depending upon grain size (e.g., references 51-53), the size distributions of the added nonplastics also contribute to compositional complexity. If behavioral inferences are to be drawn, the culturally induced elemental variation arising from texture and temper differences among pottery produced from a single clay resource requires more than simple grouping and summary statistics. 

The majority of characterization techniques discussed thus far have been surface-related, with some capable of analyzing sub-surface depths through in situ ion etching. This final section will focus briefly on a selection of common bulk techniques that may be used to characterize as-synthesized materials such as polymers, ceramics, etc. More details on these and other techniques not discussed herein may be found in the Further Reading section at the end of this chapter. In particular, these additional resources, as well as countless others online, will highlight solid-state characterization techniques such as ... 

To understand why ceramics have particular structures and why certain defects form in these structures, it is really important to understand Pauling s rules. These rules require you to visualize a tetrahedron and an octahedron and to see how they fit together. To understand properties such as piezoelectricity or the mechanisms of phase transformations, you must be able to visualize the crystal structure of the material. This is particularly important when we want to predict the properties of single crystals. We summarize the features of crystallography that we use throughout the text and give references to more specialized resources for rigorous proof of theorems and more detailed discussion. 

Lynch, C.T. (1975) Ed., CRC Handbook of Materials Science, Volume III Nonmetallic Materials and Applications, CRC Press, Cleveland. Relevant data for thin-flkn deposition are given on pp. 128-145. A useful resource for vapor pressures of various ceramics. 

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