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Thermoanalytical Investigations on Terracotta Warriors of the Qin Dynasty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

Hans G. Wiedemann
Affiliation:
H.G. Wiedemann and A. Boller, Mettler Instrumente AG, CH-8606 Greifensee, Switzerland
Andreas Boller
Affiliation:
H.G. Wiedemann and A. Boller, Mettler Instrumente AG, CH-8606 Greifensee, Switzerland
Gerhard Bayer
Affiliation:
G. Bayer, Institute of Cristallography and Petrography, ETH-Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Ancient Chinese ceramics is usually related or equated with the terms pottery and porcelain. In fact the manufacture of porcelain in ancient China is one of the most important chapters in the history of ceramics. Porcelain products were developed gradually from stoneware over a time span of nearly a thousand years. The typical white and translucent porcelain that we know as China was probably first made in the ninth century.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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