Inorganic Waste In Glaze Recipes And Their Effects On Microstructure

This work reports on recycling various amounts of inorganic wastes (scraps of glass packaging waste, key sawdust, copper slag, and pyrite ash) into artistic ceramic glazes. Glaze compositions were applied over the surface of the porcelain body and fired at 1080 deg C and characterised by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) coupled with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS). As a consequence, results showed that different inorganic wastes could be used in artistic glaze compositions for obtaining attractive colours and textures.