Ceramic (disambiguation)

A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid material comprising metal, nonmetal or metalloid atoms primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds.

Ceramic may also refer to:

Objects

• Ceramic art, art made from ceramic materials
• Ceramic building material, an umbrella term used in archaeology to cover all building materials made from baked clay
• Ceramic capacitor, an electronic component with ceramic dielectric
• Ceramic heater, a space heater with a ceramic heating element
• Ceramic knife, a knife with a ceramic blade

Other uses

• Ceramic, North Carolina, a ghost town in the US
• SS Ceramic, a British ocean liner, built 1912–1913, sunk 1942 by German torpedo attack

See also

• Ceramic foam, a tough foam made from ceramics
• Ceramic resonator, an electronic component with a piezoelectric ceramic material
• Ceramic membrane, used in liquid filtration
• Ceramic houses, buildings made of an earth mixture high in clay and fired to become ceramic, a technique developed in Iran in the 1970s
• Ceramic engineering, the science and technology of creating ceramic objects
• Ceramic petrography, a laboratory-based scientific archaeological technique in which ceramics and other inorganic materials are examined using polarized light microscopy
• Ceramic chemistry, the chemistry of ceramics and glazes
• All pages with titles containing ceramic