(n.) A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware.
Example Sentences:
(1) The colors of mixtures of dental opaque porcelains and modifiers were measured with use of the CIE L*a*b* uniform color space.
(2) Part 1 discusses the EsthetiCone, designed for use with multiple-unit restorations, which allows subgingival placement of porcelain for maximal esthetics.
(3) The results are in accord with the findings in an initial study by one of the present authors, in which the fillings were placed in denture porcelain teeth.
(4) The maximum stresses and strains in porcelain for the crowns with a conventional coping thickness (0.3 mm) and a reduced coping thickness (0.1 mm) were not significantly different.
(5) Endocardial fibroelastosis is characterized by a porcelain-like thickening of the endocardium, resulting in a marked increase in echodensity of the endocardium, as well as ventricular dilatation and aortic atresia.
(6) The etched porcelain laminate veneer is a new conservative treatment that offers a solution to fractured, discolored, and worn anterior teeth.
(7) It was found, with microscopic examination, that there is little or no diffusion of the stain into the underlying porcelain and that at a thickness of 22 microns the extrinsic stain layer is grossly evident to an observer.
(8) Porcelain glass transition temperatures and expansion values were derived from length-versus-temperature curves.
(9) Data received was converted to Munsell notation for evaluation of the dimensions of color, i.e., Hue, Chroma, and Value, as related to (1) shade differences, (2) thickness of porcelain, and (3) numbers of firings.
(10) Porcelain veneer restorations including preparations, impression materials, cast materials, refractory casts, handling of porcelain, the try-in, and the final luting are discussed.
(11) Clinical observations of porcelain restorations lead to the hypothesis that certain substructures tend to produce crowns with a lower than expected Value (brightness).
(12) Scanning electron microscopy was initially used to examine the surface configuration of porcelain prepared under various conditions.
(13) Dental porcelain emits some fluorescence under the action of ultra-violet rays.
(14) The bending strength and fracture toughness of the composite porcelains were examined.
(15) It is expected that porcelain veneer restorations will perform successfully in esthetic, conservative and abhesive dentistry.
(16) For example, many porcelain materials do not match their shade guide.
(17) Under four loading conditions, the tensile stress distributions on the ceramics crown were analyzed to evaluate the relations between three kinds of ceramics crown, which were an aluminous porcelain jacket crown, a feldspathic porcelain jacket crown and an Olympus castable ceramics (O.C.C.)
(18) The potential for porcelain fracture in debonding, however, is much increased and it is questionable whether bond strengths of this magnitude are required clinically.
(19) Techniques involving a cemented porcelain-fused-to-metal overcasting have often been successful in restoring the fixed partial denture to form and function.
(20) In children porcelain veneers provide a simple means of splinting traumatised anterior teeth which have coronal fractures either for the immediate or the long term.
Pottery
Definition:
(n.) The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.
(n.) The place where earthen vessels are made.
Example Sentences:
(1) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
(2) Asked by a troll how long he planned to “live off” his Olympic success, and if he would ever do anything of consequence again, Rutherford suggested he might become a porn star or dabble in pottery instead.
(3) In a community of potters in Barbados where lead glazes traditionally have been used, a survey of 12 potters, 19 of their family members, and 24 controls revealed elevated blood lead levels in the potters, their family members, and the neighbours who used pottery for culinary purposes.
(4) Scores of archaeologists working in a waterlogged trench through the wettest summer and coldest winter in living memory have recovered more than 10,000 objects from Roman London , including writing tablets, amber, a well with ritual deposits of pewter, coins and cow skulls, thousands of pieces of pottery, a unique piece of padded and stitched leather – and the largest collection of lucky charms in the shape of phalluses ever found on a single site.
(5) Among the victims are the Carradale, Broadmore and Normanton brickworks, which have shut recently along with Jesse Shirley, a Stoke-on-Trent pottery firm, which had been trading for 191 years.
(6) In the rooms used for handicraft lessons numerous articles of pottery were on display.
(7) Another 20,000 work in small potteries or the industry's supply chain.
(8) They were commonly buried with an array of possessions including pottery cups.
(9) Sammy Duder, from Sammy Duder pottery-painting studio in Battersea, London, said the programme had “definitely sparked an interest” with the public.
(10) With McClaren running out of time to reassure Mike Ashley, the owner, that he remains the right man to save Newcastle from relegation, he knows a significant improvement in the Potteries and at home against Bournemouth on Saturday is imperative.
(11) The accompanying marketing blitzkrieg has given us postage stamps , Madame Tussauds exhibits , themed decor from Pottery Barn and fleets of new toys , including actual droids .
(12) They include the use of lead-glazed cooking pottery in Mexican-American households; folk medical use of lead in Hispanic, Arabic, South Asian, Chinese, and Hmong communities; as well as the use of lead as a cosmetic in the Near East, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.
(13) That’s why we focused our campaign on making Brexit work for the Potteries, with a practical plan to deliver safeguards for the local ceramic industry and a clear call for local funding to be protected by the government.
(14) Notification rates of all forms of tuberculosis have increased in all age-groups in the Potteries, in a stable population which includes only a small immigrant community.
(15) Although the incidence of silicosis in the Potteries has declined spectacularly in the past 20 years with the introduction of preventive measures, there still remains a generation of middle-aged and elderly potters with the disease who pose special problems for the anaesthetist and the thoracic surgeon.
(16) We were the right club at the right time.” All that remains now is for the player to resurrect his career in the Potteries, though Hughes does not believe he will have any difficulty.
(17) Coates can pass unrecognised through the streets of Stoke-on-Trent, where Bet365's success has made it the city's largest private sector employer, its unassuming offices a hi-tech hive of activity on the margins of an industrial landscape dominated by derelict pottery factories.
(18) In the small pottery town of Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, there's a mighty battle taking place to save the Great War memorial .
(19) The possible association between exposure to low levels of silica and lung cancer was investigated by following up pottery workers included in a survey conducted in 1970-71 of respiratory disease among such workers.
(20) event to coincide with the Great Pottery Throw Down, in an attempt to encourage “everyone across the UK to get creative with clay”.