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Ceramic Materials
o Ceramic materials can be crystalline,
non-crystalline, or mixtures of both.
o Ceramics are compounds between
metallic and non-metallic elements, most
frequently oxides, nitrides, and carbides.
o For example, some of the common
ceramic materials include aluminium
oxide (or alumina, Al O ), silicon
2
3
dioxide (or silica, SiO ), silicon carbide
2
(SiC) and silicon nitride (Si N ).
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3
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