Wall tile body

The desired color for a wall tile body, in most parts of the world, is white or buff. Some producers manufacture a pink or red body, depending on the availability of local materials. The iron content of the clays and/or other minerals used in tile manufacture is generally the determining factor in the tile body color. The higher the iron content, the redder the body. 

Ceramics. In ceramics, talc is widely used in wall tile and hobbyware bodies, in electrical porcelains, and in cordierite formulations. Wall tile and hobbyware ate talc—clay bodies that ate pressed and fast-fired to a high porosity (bisque) and then glazed and tefired to produce the final product. Talc containing tremolite and carbonate is preferred to ensure good porosity. 

Steatite bodies are used also for art ware, oven ware and wall tiles. 

Compared with porcelain, earthenware has a lower strength (< 30 MPa in bending), so that the ware can only find application where high strength is not required. Earthenware is used in the manufacture of wall tiles, domestic and decorative ware, and sometimes also sanitary ware. The glaze has the additional function of rendering the surface impermeable to water because the body itself is porous. Earthenware provided with a glaze is also called faience. ... 

By replacing the feldspar of an earthenware body with talc, a body of low moisture expansion, suitable for wall tiles, is obtained. For all these purposes, the talc should contain a minimum of iron oxides and alkalis. 

CAS 14807-96-6 EINECS/ELINCS 238-877-9 Uses Reinforcing agent, filler, extender for elastomers, PVC, vinyl asbestos tile, polyester in match molded articles, body patching compds., PR nylon, phenol formaldehyde, polyethylene, ceramic wall tile and artware pigment for interior wall paints, exterior house paints, primers, maintenance paints, traffic paints... 

Waterfall Process. A method for the application of glaze materials to a ceramic body by mechanically conveying the ware through a continuously flowing (recirculated) vertical stream of the glaze suspension. The process is used in the glazing of wall tiles. 

White s Test. A method for the detection of free lime, for example in Portland cement or dolomite refractories. A few mg of the powdered sample is placed on a glass microscope-slide and wetted with a solution of 5g phenol dissolved in 5 ml nitrobenzene with the addition of two drops of water. Micro-examination (x 80) will reveal the formation of long birefringent needles if free CaO is present. (A. H. White, Industr. Engng. Chem. 1, 5, 1909.) Whiteware. A general term for all those varieties of pottery that usually have a white body, e.g. tableware, sanitary ware and wall tiles. See also ceramic WHITEWARE, which has an ASTM definition. 

The amounts of feldspar used in common types of pottery bodies are sanitaryware, 25-35% hotel china, 15-35% chemical porcelain, 15-30% electrical porcelain, 30-50% whiteware, 15-30% floor and wall tile, 10-55%. 

Heavy clay industry silicate ceramic (clay ceramic) coarse ceramic bodies 1000 80 5-150 bricks, roofing tiles, ceiling bricks, wall and floor tiles... 

Figure 2. Paired choices of male scent-marked territories presented to female house mice in estrous (see Rich Hurst 1998 for full details). Wild-caught adult male mice, housed in pairs of neighbouring enclosures separated by a mesh-capped tunnel, were each allowed to counter-mark floor tiles bearing scent marks from a non-neighbour male. Males were removed and floor tiles rearranged to create one territory marked exclusively by the owner and another containing some floor tiles (shown as hatched squares) marked by the owner and counter-marked by another male. In experiment 1 (a) the territories were otherwise identical. In experiment 2 (b and c), the physical protection surrounding the males nestbox was also varied. Protected nest sites were surrounded by the enclosure walls and house bricks and were partially covered with a lid. After opening the tunnel between territories, females were allowed to explore for 2h, then removed and given a choice between the body odors of the two territory owners, and finally interacted with each male within his territory.

In order to minimize the risk of microbiological contamination, surfaces must be clean and therefore smooth and accessible. Walls are often tiled or painted while floors are of asphalt, terrazo, or other suitable material. There must be a sufficient fall to the floor to permit efficient drainage. The drains themselves must be well constructed so that they are easy to maintain and trap all odours. Ceilings are so designed that condensation does not fall into the body of the room. Alternatively, air conditioning should ensure that no condensation forms. 

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