Ceramics and Calcium

Look up "ceramic formulas"

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=+%22ceramic+formulas%22&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22ceramic+formulations%22&btnG=Search

also scan amazon.

A ceramic is a mixture of assorted oxides and many other compounds that are baked to a temperature and cooled via some regime to a final product.

The field is huge and covers many hundreds of specialties, so you will have to fine tune your search to reach your area of intetest

Have you seen http://www.rsc.org/Education/EiC/issues/2006Nov/GlassBones.asp ?

Unless your kiln has a strong reducing atmosphere, it will burn

like a flare. Even at room temp. metalic calcium is not all that stable.

What are you after???

are you interested in introducing elemental calcium or an oxide of it. kindly state the purpose.

Calcium is a fluxing agent- it will lower the melting point of the refractories it contacts and possibly cause catastophic failure of the furnace walls if too much is added.

Bill Morrow