Tabathos Posted November 11, 2019 Report Share Posted November 11, 2019 Hello. I did a test tile with some materials I don't know their name. They came as a bonus with my old kiln, so I did a test tile in cone 2. I would be grateful on insights about this. I know one is a feldspar (because the box says so), but it doesn't specify what kind of feldspar it is. I also wrote how the material look in raw state. Thank you very much in advance. Edit: The one that says yellow crystal actually dissappeared. I wonder if it volatized, or fell off the tile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Min Posted November 11, 2019 Report Share Posted November 11, 2019 My guess on #1 would be a gum, tragacanth maybe? Have you read through the Mike Bailey and Michael Hewitt article thats here on identifying unlabelled materials? They have a few methods of trying to determine what unknown materials are. Not sure what you mean for #2 and #3 being "stone". How much of the materials do you have? Might not be worth the effort trying to figure them out if it's just small quantities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabathos Posted November 12, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2019 Thank you very much for the link, i'll read it later. I mean about stone that they are not in powder form, they solidified. Maybe a more appropriate word is "rock"? I have a lot of it, like 30 kg of feldspar, and 20 kg of the white powders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilestrick Posted November 13, 2019 Report Share Posted November 13, 2019 If you fired samples to cone 6 we would probably have a better idea of what some might be, since that's the temp a lot of people here work at. I've never seen material samples fired to cone 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlady Posted November 13, 2019 Report Share Posted November 13, 2019 can you tell us where you are in the world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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