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SaltS

Soluble Salts and data useful to ceramists.

I am not a safety expert, or a chemist.

Introduction

This site is intended as a resource for using solubles to affect the surface appearance of clay. There are slides from a presentation on the subject by Alex Ferrante given at NCECA here: https://www.slideshare.net/JamesFerrante/ferrante-ppt2

Normally in glazes and surfaces clayers shy away from highly soluble materials. This is because the solubility creates problems including:

• migration of the material into and through porous clay.
• migration into adjacent glazes
• affects on the rheology of the glaze such as flocculation, coagulation, deflocculation and thixotropy.
• some of these materials can be caustic
• increased hazards
• disposal issues
• reactions with other materials

This site is going to try and deal with each of these materials separately and discuss glaze and surface possibilities, and what I think I know about these materials safety, disposal, and reaction issues. In no way should anyone assume that I have any expertise in safety or chemistry and there may be places where the lack of information creates the possibility of a hazard. The material even if correct is certainly not complete.

• AlkaliMetals sodium and potassium general considerations. See them individually below.
• AluminumSalts
• BoronCompunds
• CalciumCompounds
• ChromeNickelCompounds
• CobaltCompounds
• CopperCompounds
• IronCompounds
• LithiumCompounds
• MagnesiumCompounds
• Phosphorus (see trisodium phosphate in SodiumCompounds )
• PotassiumCompounds
• SodiumCompounds
• StrontiumCompounds
• TinCompounds
• TitaniumNitrate
• ZincCompounds
• ZirconiumCompounds

I am not a safety expert, or a chemist. Do not use this site as a primary source for safety, chemistry or disposal information.