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Zirconia vs Porcelain - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between zirconia and porcelain

is that zirconia is the oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummond light while porcelain is a hard, white, translucent ceramic that is made by firing kaolin and other materials; china.

zirconia

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

  • (chemistry) The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummond light.

    • Synonyms

    * zirconium dioxide

    Derived terms

    * cubic zirconia * zirconian

    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]