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Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Manufactured Materials > Ceramics

Preferred term

Ceramics  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • not restricted to dentistry

Scope note

  • Products made by baking or firing nonmetallic minerals (clay and similar materials). In making dental restorations or parts of restorations the material is fused porcelain. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed & Boucher's Clinical Dental Terminology, 4th ed)

History note

  • 73(67)

In other languages

  • keramiikka

    Finnish

  • posliini tai sen kaltaiset aineet hammaslääketieteessä
  • posliinin tai sen kaltaisten aineiden käyttö hammaslääketieteessä
  • Keramik

    Swedish

  • Keramer

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002516

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