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Enamel vs Porcelain - What's the difference?

enamel | porcelain |

As nouns the difference between enamel and porcelain

is that enamel is an opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects while porcelain is a hard, white, translucent ceramic that is made by firing kaolin and other materials; china.

As a verb enamel

is to coat or decorate with enamel.

enamel

English

(wikipedia enamel)

Noun

  • An opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects.
  • A coating that dries to a hard, glossy finish.
  • The hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth.

    • Verb

  • To coat or decorate with enamel.
  • To variegate with colours, as if with enamel.
  • * Milton
    • Oft he [the serpent] bowed / His turret crest and sleek enamelled neck.
  • To form a glossy surface like enamel upon.
    • to enamel''' card paper; to '''enamel leather or cloth
  • To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.

    • Derived terms

    * enamelware * porcelain enamel * tooth enamel * vitreous enamel

    Anagrams

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    porcelain

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia porcelain)
  • (usually, uncountable) A hard, white, translucent ceramic that is made by firing kaolin and other materials; china.
  • (usually, countable) Anything manufactured from this material..

    • Derived terms

    * ivory porcelain * porcelain clay * porcelain crab * porcelain jasper * porcelain printing * porcelain shell * porcelaneous

    References

    * Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001]