Talk:Slip (ceramics)

Some slips have little or no clay and some are not thin
I do not understand why this had been changed as the reasons are quite clear: some ceramics slips contain no clay (for example alumina bodies) and some slips are highly viscous (such as those used for fine fire clay) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.1.150.138 (talk) 11:44, 2008 July 8 (UTC)

balram yadav — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.70.236.201 (talk) 10:53, 2015 July 1 (UTC)

Re-write in English?
These few lines seem to have been edited to death and must now be incomprehensible to the general reader. Could someone re-write them in a form suitable for a non-specialist encyclopedia? I am willing to have a try if there are no serious objections. Marshall46 (talk) 14:35, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Feel free!
 * It looked like this when I first wrote it...
 * Slip in a ceramic context is made by mixing clay with water and usually a deflocculent such as sodium silicate. The addition of a defloculant allows the water content to be kept to a minimum which reduces the amount of shrinkage when slipcasting. The mixing can be by hand or more usually in a blunger.


 * but has been much mangled since! Teapotgeorge (talk) 16:01, 15 August 2008 (UTC)